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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
May 27, 2012
Today we woke up at 9.30, went and did laundry, and got
another kebab all before we met up at the new hotel at 12.00. The kebabs here are so much better than Rome,
I didn’t think it was possible either.
They put everything in a pita bread sandwich… to die for. Anyways, we met up with the group and dropped
our bags in a closet in the hotel, the rooms weren’t ready, and surprisingly
everyone made it back from their free days on time. We immediately walked down to La Galleria
Degli Arazzi, it was a museum that seemed to go on for days with statues,
busts, paintings, and monuments either created by famous people or portraying
famous people. Next we went to the
Academia Gallery, it was another museum with some more very interesting works
of art. The this is where the Statue of
David is, your not supposed to but I got a picture, it was tough because they
are on top of it. I had no idea the
statue was as big as it is, probably 30’ tall.
We then went to Ponte Vecchio, it is a bridge on the opposite side of
town. It was pretty cool to see, there
were a lot of shops and street vendors.
Joel got himself a Folex, fake Rolex.
Next we walked BACK across town and through a little straw market, they
all have the same stuff really but there are some really nice leather items
that I want to take another look at. We
came back and finally checked into the rooms.
I’m staying with Dave here in Florence and we got a room on the lowest
level, no four flights of stairs for us.
I worked on catching up on blogs and went and got some pizza… the best
pizza I think I have ever had. We just
chilled out tonight and planned out our night for tomorrow. I got some work done and went to sleep. Check back tomorrow.
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May 26, 2012
Today we slept in until about 9.30. We caught a 11.20 train to Pisa, the rest of
the group who was staying in Rapallo was also on this train, pure
coincidence. We all rode together to
Pisa, Kyle and I had discussed seeing the leaning tower while we were there and
no one else wanted to go (I don’t know why).
We had to stop in Pisa to switch trains to Florence anyways, so we took
an hour break, caught a bus and went and checked out the leaning tower of Pisa,
I figured I might not ever get to see it again.
Of course we took several stereotypical pictures holding up the
tower. It was really cool to see how
quickly it started to lean, and how quickly it stopped throughout the
years. We took the bus back to the train
station and caught a bus to Florence. We
got to Florence and met up with the other guys, we hadn’t booked a hotel for
tonight so we were just winging it.
Luckily, eventually, we got a room at the same place, Hotel Boston. We met up with Brady, Dave, Sumner, Jack, and
Joel later on. Dave stayed with Kyle and
I and the others got a room at another hotel.
We all showered and got ready for the night. Dave, Joel, Sumner, Brady, Jack, Kyle, and I
went to eat at a place someone had recommended to Joel. The place was called Osteria and it was
really good. I had a pasta with cheese
and bacon in it. We went to ‘The Lions
Den’ which is an Irish/American bar… pretty much only American’s in there. Apparently they take American money but I
didn’t see any of that. We walked around
a little more and came back to the hotel and called it a night.
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May 25, 2012
Today we woke up at 7.00 AM (I know it’s early for our days
off but we didn’t want to miss out on the time we had there). We took a fifteen minute train ride to
Monterosso which is the farthest town away from where we are staying. We walked around for a while checking out the
town, then we met up with Morgan, Drew, Alex, Cameron, Kendall, and KK who came
to Cinque Terre today. We all loaded up
on groceries and rented kayaks for the day. We paid 25 euro for the rental but
it was well worth it. We had them from
about 10-5. We kayaked from Monterosso
to Vernazza, the next town over. On the
way we went into a few coves, admired the beautiful cliffs, and found an
amazing waterfall. The water was falling about two hundred feet straight down.
There was a grotto type area surrounding it and we stopped here for a good hour
on the way. We finally made it to
Vernazza, which seemed like twenty miles, and had lunch and checked out the
town. There was really bad flooding a
few months back in Vernazza, which is supposed to be the main town, and it was
still under construction, so it wasn’t the best place to hang out. We got back to kayaking and decided to go to
the other side of Monterosso. Monterosso
is in a cove so we went directly from Vernazza to a point on the horizon, at
one point we were about two miles away from any coast… would have been bad if
someone were to tip out there. We made
it to the point on the horizon hoping to find some cool cliff jumps, and sadly
there were none. Some of them went further;
Kyle and I went back and got a train back to La Spezia. For some reason the Mediterranean water has
much more salt in it so we had to go back to shower. We got another train from La Spezia and went
to Corniglia, the town right in the middle of Cinque Terre. It is supposedly a really wine rich part of
the coast; it is away from the water up in the cliffs of Italy’s coast. There was a lot of wine, just not the cheap
stuff that we needed. Couldn’t spend too
much seeing as I already have. We
eventually went back to Riomaggiore, the first town, and did the same thing as
the night before. We met some girls from West Virginia who were also here on
study abroad. We all got some vino, went
to our sunset spot, and watched the sun go down. It was a good time. We went back to the place and got a good night’s
sleep, actually being able to sleep in tomorrow for a little while. Check out
tomorrows post.
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