The travels of عائشة: Florence

WASSGOOD?? Yeah I know I have totally dropped the ball on this whole travel blog, but it's hard! Even though Europe is oh so fancy, they really suck at providing free WiFi. Why in the world would I pay for WiFi? Annyywwaayyy I left off posting about Florence so I am going to try my best to remember all the amazing details. Hereeee I go!

Let's start off in my last morning in Rome! My whole entire family caught some sort of bug and we were all miserable, especially me. I woke up feeling super nauseous and queasy; it was awful. We were suppose to check out of our hotel room and drive 2 hours straight to Florence. The drive to Florence was absolutely beautiful and the best way to describe it is to tell you that it is exactly how you imagine it would be. The rolling hills, the neutral toned villages with pops of terracotta colored roofs, and the lush scenery. The coolest thing about the drive was seeing all the different villages that I mentioned before. You would think you would see a couple of villages on the drive, but there were SO MANY. As soon as one cluster of homes and stores would end, you could see the next cluster just a little bit off in the distance. My mom kept asking if we could pull over and walk around in the villages, but we moved on. When we finally got to Florence and checked in I was relieved to find out that the place offered free WiFi THANK GOD. We went out and walked around Florence and to be completely honest, Florence is really not that big. Now I'm talking about the main city, not all the suburbs and what not because I am sure there are plenty of suburbs. The streets were lined with designer stores and leather shops- which are very common in Italy. Italy is HUGE on designer clothes and leather. My father bought some cuff links from his favorite designer store on father's day and my mother bought a leather handbag. The food is absolutely THE BOMB there. Like I said in my previous post, I had THE BEST pizza EVER in Florence. The shop is called Gusta Pizza and if you are ever in Florence you have to try it! My sister, who was studying abroad in Istanbul, has a friend who previously studied abroad in Florence and she told us all the amazing places to eat and all the sights to see. She recommended this panini place which was awesome as well as some places to eat gelato. Between just me and you, I liked Florence the best out of all of Italy. The weather was AMAZING, the food was EXCELLENT and the gelato was the bomb. We were there for a couple of days, but it was mostly spent walking around and looking at various landmarks.

I think I posted only some of my Florence pictures in the previous post, here come more! Enjoy!