This was our big day in Florence. We woke up early to catch our reservation for the Accademia Gallery, which houses Michelangelo's 'David'.We were waiting in line by 8:30 am and were practically the first people to enter the museum.We knew we were on kind of a short timeline, because we had a tour of the chianti wine region booked for 10:15, so we made a bee-line through the museum to where David was. Wow!! What an incredible sculpture this is. What we've reali...

I've fallen a bit behind on my blog, mostly due to the fact that we have been so busy having fun. So, here I am, trying to catch up as we are hiding from the afternoon sun in Sorrento.The last time I wrote we had just arrived in Florence and were thoroughly enjoying the sights there. We had two more full days to enjoy Florence. We spent the first day just sightseeing the city. Florence really has a great vibe to it, more sophisticated than Venice and more relax...

Well, we managed to escape Venice. We were both pretty happy to leave there. While picturesque, it left a bad taste in both of our mouths. We caught a fast train out of the city in the morning and happily watched the flat countryside outside of Venice merge into the rolling green hills of Tuscany. We arrived in Florence by 2pm and were overwhelmed by the heat as we got off the train....it must have been nearly 40 degrees! We quickly found our way to our hotel a...