Europe Trip: Part One

FLORENCE

As we mentioned last time, we plan to post some pictures and write some words about our eurotrip, and as you can tell on our headline our first stop was Florence :)

We arrived in Italy around 6:00 pm, drove our way, and kind of getting lost, or following an unsuitable route to be exact, so the result was to arrive at our hotel around 00:30 instead of 9:30, after crossing a never ending mountain haha, which would be ideal for daytime but being completely dark outside we kind of missed out the opportunity on a great view..

Sailing (a 24 hour journey) from Patra (Greece) to Ancona (Italy)

Including top class entertainment (ehum) and a Hercules room. 

So since we had only 1 full day to spend in Florence we had to take advantage of every hour and try to explore as much was possible of the city, which luckily enough is not THAT big. Can also add that for late October it was such nice weather with around 16/17 degrees, which allowed us to stay out very late without jackets and cold.

 A small river with the natives taking their bath :)

 Imported Moroccan trees (naah)

 Any moment now the ghost of the headless rider will jump out of that haha (that's Aris writing, Isabella might not agree entirely but right now the blog is under occupation!!! YEAH!)

Very nice trees there btw. We did our best to capture them, but kind of failed..

 Isabella, on a tree we had to chop down for the shooting, no animals we hurt though :)

Aris got jealous and gave me his best pose, cheered by the crowd behind him, that would be the guy on the bench, in the dark. 

 First meal had to be a pizza or pasta of course! La grotta de Leo was the name, the pizza wasn't as meow though... and yes the expectations weren't met, damn..

 Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, cathedral

 The whole architecture, as well as the painting inside the church was astonishing, no words really. The amount of pictures we took speak for themselves, and well we took way more than we could ever post.

 Dante's little church, very atmospheric, with some baroque-like music playing in, we found it by accident while strolling the streets of the old city.

The Arno river

 The infamous Ponte Vecchio bridge

Somewhere on the left hand side, a couple of blocks from what you can see from here is the supposed best ice cream in Florence, while it was good, lets say that you probably have tasted something better in your hometown... Although it is a bit understandable from the location, and the fact that everyone had their ice cream on the bridge next to the river. Did we mention that it was expensive? haha.

So, about Florence? We suggest it to anyone really, it was the best destination of our trip. There are things for everyone to do, either you prefer something more quiet, romantic, sightseeing, shopping, etc etc etc. Wish we had have stayed a few more days than we did; maybe some other time though :)

Next post will be about our time in Austria!

Pictures: 1, 3, 4, 7. 8, 10, 13, 15, 18, 20& 23 by Isabella

2, 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 19, 21& 22 by his majesty the royal highness ARIS the Great! (and humble)

p.s. We know the list on who took the pictures looks ugly, we'll try to figure out a more stylish way next time :)