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WANT – please. Please. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!! yes. obviously. Saturday I drove down to Covina to meet with some blog-friends in real life. It was kind of awesome make a new house feel like home 9 mindfulness tips guys. It’s almost May. of 2011!! How is that possible? It’s National Parks week! quit your job [...]
After visiting David, we had a bit of time before the train.
Lunch, San Lorenzo market, pick up our luggage and walk to the train station.
Lunchtime: We just wandered around town until we found something. I guess we chose this place based on it’s look entirely. It looked cute.
The food was not [...]
You turn the corner, and walk into the hallway where you know he is.
Your expectations are high, but you try to temper your excitement so you’re not too let down. Just in case.
You try to avoid looking up to save the moment as long as possible but it’s too hard.
You know [...]
On our last morning in Florence, the one thing that we DEFINITELY planned on doing was visiting the Accademia. So much planned ahead that we bought time-scheduled entrance tickets a couple months ahead of time to make sure we were able to get in ….
So, noonish, we headed over to that side of [...]
So Thursday morning in Florence, we visited Santa Croce. That gorgeous basilica I’ve blogged about the last couple days. With the memorials and the tombs and the Catholic art and the little nuns. The photos do NOT do this place justice. I just loved the space and the light.
But that wasn’t even all [...]
Continuing on our Thursday morning, in Florence, at Santa Croce …..
(Every once in awhile I remember to take a self portrait, or Andrew kindly asks if I want him to take a picture of me. ….. proves I was there, right?)
also: I was wearing Andrew’s glasses for a little bit because my [...]
For those of you just joining us, I have been chronicling Andrew’s and my week in Italy …. Rome, Florence for a wedding, and then Rome again. …. It was magic.
Our last morning in Florence (Thursday) we made time to visit the Basilica of Santa Croce (note: this is post 1 of 2 [...]
Thursday morning – we had about 1/2 day in Florence to do touristy things before catching our train back to Rome.
Leisurely breakfast at the B&B. We *technically* checked out, but were able to keep our bags there AND keep the keys ….. so, yea. They’re pretty lenient on that sort of thing
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I know, the title sounds kind of ooh-la-la, but it’s mostly a story about Devo and myself. Oh, this is Andrew by the way, doing a mid-week post since this is my story and not Amy’s.
After the wedding and reception, Devo had rounded up cabs to take all the guests to their lodgings. [...]
The morning of the wedding I woke up and before I showered or got ready for the wedding I decided I wanted to climb Giotto’s Tower. This 270-foot bell tower for Il Duomo has 50 fewer steps than Il Duomo (so that means 413 steps right? I’m too lazy this morning to check my [...]
After our wonderful sunny day in the Tuscan Countryside tasting wine, olive oil and a traditional Italian home-cooked meal everyone was kind of beat. The next day Angela and Devo had a full day of getting married and I think most of us just wanted to relax and be available to help prepare for [...]
When you’re in Florence, if you can make it happen, try to climb the Duomo tower at sunset.
No question.
Tuesday afternoon, our guides from Accidental Tourist drove us back to the city of Florence from our host’s home in Tuscany after [...]
The second stop of our Accidental Tourist Tuscany day excursion was to a second property (I believe owned by the same family) where we were treated to olive oil tasting and wine tasting.
{Check out the other stop we had this day here: Villa Gondi, how to make olive oil, how to make wine [...]
(I know it seems like a long time ago, but when we left off on our Italy trip, it was the middle of Tuesday, we were at Villa Gondi learning how they make olive oil and now wine) ….
Yes, in addition to learning about how they make olive oil, we toured the facilities [...]
In which we learn how Grignani Olive Oil is made. [...]
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