I have made it! After a very long couple of days of traveling I am finally in Florence. Customs were the easiest I've ever experienced, they didn't even check my passport when I got to the Florence airport, weird. Regardless I have conquered the drowsy monster that is jet lag and I am moved in to my apartment, Via San Gallo 33. For the first two nights we were in a beautiful hotel in the center, where I met my roommate and ate a beautiful welcome dinner on the rooftop terrace at sunset.
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| Il Duomo at sunset from the roof of l'hotel Baglioni [29.8.2011] |
On our second day in town we went on a walking tour of florence, very helpful for getting oriented in the city, we were shown where many of the museums are and the big landmarks in the center of town.
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| The Medici family palace, which has since been converted into a museum [30.8.2011] |
The next day we moved into our apartments, which are in the centro. In our apartment building there are seven API student apartments, ours is on floor 1 1/2, we have a small door halfway up the stairs that leads to an outdoor walkway that then leads to our apartment next door to an Italian woman. The building is hundreds of years old and some of the apartments have frescoed ceilings, it is beautiful. We went to a cooking class across the river and learned to make chocolate lava cakes, gnocchi, and some delizioso appetizers. Then home for an evening glass of vino with the roommates.
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| A three euro bottle of wine. Delicious. Nothing like 2-buck chuck. [31.8.2011] |
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| The door halfway up the stairs, all apartment doorknobs are in the middle of the door and don't actually turn. [1.9.2011] |
This is the start of a lovely adventure.
AMAZING PICS, AM!!!!! Showed preston the blog too, and he reminded me that he walked past the medici palace everyday to class. way cool.
ReplyDeletebtw, i think mom sent you my wrong email address, it's not the hotmail it's jsherrow@gmail.com, maybe add me to the mailing list?
have fun!
jess