sethbc’s (infrequent) blog…

Well Florence completed our mini-tour of Italy. I’ve got to say of the cities we went in Italy, I was most impressed by Florence. That being said, of all the cities we went to in Italy, Florence was by far the most touristy.

As a brief aside: if you are planning on traveling in Italy, be advised that their train system does not prioritize timeliness. Every single train we got operated by TrenItalia was late.

I digress. Unfortunately for us, the tardiness of our train and the vast number of tourists flocking to Florence left us out of luck in going to the museums there. Both museums we wanted to see were inundated with tourists, and operating above capacity. Though I really wanted to see some of the artwork, we didn’t want to wait in the lines. Instead we meandered the narrow streets of Florence, and happened upon some beautiful squares, amazing statues, and the house of Dante (of Inferno fame, not Dante’s Down the Hatch). As a finish to our day in Florence, we watched the sunset over the Arno river.

When we got back to the train station, we had planned on getting on an 11.30PM train to Luzern, but TrenItalia just had to make things difficult. Their reservation system doesn’t work the day of, and since that was the last train out, we didn’t really want to risk being stranded in Florence if the train was full. The train we ended up taking brought us to Munich at 6.30AM, and we’re currently on our way to Salzburg, and then home to Budapest.

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