Italy: Florence. Further disappointment

It was with great excitement, that we headed into Florence for the day! Finally! Getting to see the city that so many renaissance legends - Lorenzo de Medici/Michaelangelo/Leonardo da Vinci/Donatello/Raphael and Botticelli- called home! But once again, we were sadly unimpressed. Our day got off on the wrong foot when we joined a supposedly top rated walking tour of the city, but were unable to hear our tour guide from all the background noise of tourists. The times we could hear her, she just waffled on in a monotone of the history of the city with very little attempt at making the tour entertaining. We saw Michaelangelo's statue of David and the Duomo Firenze which were highlights in what was otherwise a lacklustre tour of the city. Another turn off to Florence was the fact that it was HEAVING with tourists! The place does have a cool history and architecture, but I think we were fortunate enough to have been to some other places on our travels that had the same charm and yet were far more understated than this city. Emz and I then had a traditional Florentine meat saamie called Lampredotto for lunch. Haha, Emz ended up a bit grossed out after having eaten the saamie when it sunk in that the meat portion of the sandwich was made from the 4th stomach of a cow!😳😂 Our best experience of Florence came next when we had gelato which I must say was delicious! Things improved further when our supper was also actually quite nice where we shared a pasta and a pizza and Florence also appeared a lot more charming at night when it was all lit up and was filled with classical instrument playing buskers on the streets! Sadly, the next item on our agenda was to watch the Bokke play Ireland in a packed Irish pub. Even though the Bokke played well, the loss was probably the cherry on top of what was on average a disappointing day. I think sadly Florence's high jump bar had been set too high and we were the forlorn athletes lying disappointed on the mats beneath.Read more