Yesterday Lorenzo took me on a special trip into the hills of Florence. We went to a little village called Chiuesa Nuova where he used to have band rehearsals and singing lessons back in the day. The purpose of our trip was we Schiacciata. Schiacciata is a big sandwich with Focaccia type bread (although it is not the same things and this is where the name comes from--schiacciata means something along the lines of "flattened"). We had ours with Pecorino...

I did it! Well, almost. I took a stroll through the Bobobli Gardens this weekend. It was amazing! Lorenzo and I went to the front of Palazzo Pitti, which is enormous and also the main entrance to the gardens. There is a photo of me standing in front of it so that you can get the idea of how huge this place it. We wondered around in the sun for a while trying to see all of the different sites that are listed on the tourist signs, but that place is a maze and I ...

Since arriving in Florence on 28th of December, quite a lot has happened. I will hopefully be staying here in Florence for a while and traveling to other countries in the meantime. I had a full-packed month of learning during my TEFL course over the past four weeks. Now, here I am sent out into the "real world" and I don't know what I am supposed to do now! I have spent the past week being entirely unproductive and non-proactive about getting a job an...

On Tuesday (5 Jan) we arrived home from our trip to Amsterdam. Wow, is it cold in Amsterdam in the middle of winter! It was a pretty crazy week since I just arrived in Florence on December 28th and we headed to Amsterdam on December 30th! First, after a 10-hour flight to Paris I was anxious about having to transfer terminals at the enormous and entirely unfamiliar Charels d' Gualle Airport. Nevertheless, leave it to me to worry about the thing that turns out to ...