Fresco's in Florence

Florence is GORGEOUS 💜! Both Steve and I agree that it's our favourite city so far 😍! We would love to come back and explore more of Tuscany in the future, (the list of places we want to travel to gets longer everyday 😄). #bucketlist!

Florence again was action packed for us. We dumped the bags at our accomodation and headed for Piazzale Michelangelo in the 36°C heat! 🌞🌞🌞🌞 (refer to hot, delusional selfies). To get here we crossed Ponte Vecchio - The bridge across the river Arno where many jewelers shops line either side of the bridge, enticing lovers with pricey diamonds! 😍

It's 2 weeks since we arrived in Italy and during this time I've learnt that travelling with a Civil Engineer means going to the top of every tall structure in the city!

In Florence the 'tall structures' are hard to miss! The Campanile Di Giotto (bell tower) and the Santa Maria Duomo stand tall in the Centre of Piazza Del Duomo and they are a must- see! The dome of the Cathedral is immense and you can get up close and personal with the dramatic paintings depicting scenes of Hell, right before popping out of the top to see the pano's of Florence.

A favourite place of ours was the Mercato Centrale - with a traditional food market on the lower level and a modern gourmet food court on the upper level. It was definitely a case of 'eyes bigger than your belly' or 'eyes bigger than our wallet' (in our case) We could have hopped from stand to stand all day long tasting all of Italy's specialities! 😊

On that note we have tasted our fair share of gelato, both tasting a different flavour every day! THEY ARE JUST SO GOOD!!!!Read more