Finding Florence

Mar 17, 2017
2 min read

So excited to visit Florence! Ryan had it all 'loosely' planned, and I just went along for the ride.

Planned in our books usually means a top 10 kind list which we may or may not get through depending on how distracted we get by minor things along the way.

Did I mention how lovely Italian people seem to be yet?

Whist waiting for our bus to Rome, so we could get to the station, a car whizzed past to the junction, and then did a reverse all the way to us. I wondered if they were going to ask directions.

Andrea's lives in the area, and offered us a lift to the center of Rome as he was visiting friends. A bit dubiously, we accepted, and it was fab! We got to see a whole different perspective of Rome, and drove via Garbatella. It is actually a subway stop on our way in, and has a historic mini centre, and beautiful gardens. So nice is is known as the garden city, and is now a very sought after place. Not so much when Andreas was growing up there. I was starting to think Rome was only nice in the touristy areas, but so happy to be proven wrong :) :) :)

So back to Florence!

As soon as we arrived, we wondered straight to the river.