We set the alarm for 9am this morning but were both woken up at 8am by deafening thunder. I couldn't believe it. There was torrential rain, lightening, it was all kicking off. I didn't really know how we were gonna get to the station in it but come 9am the thunder and lightening had passed and the rain has stopped by 9.30. Originally as we set out on the walk at 9.45 I had slipped a jumper on but it was 24 degrees outside and by the end of the block the jumper h...

Today we got a lie in and even woke up before our 8.45am alarm went off. We got up, dressed and was out the apartment by 9.15am for a leisurely walk to the station. We arrived with good time so had time to get some cannoli and peach juice as breakfast. The train was unbelievably crowded but we managed to get a seat. This was our only train without reserved seats as the Florence- Pisa line is very short. Despite the air conditioning the extra bodies made the tra...

We got up at 8.30am, chucked some clothes on and headed straight out to the market this morning. The central market in Florence is pretty amazing and we decided to pick up some stuff for dinner tonight. We picked up some wild boar sausages, pastel coloured pasta, buffalo mozzarella, chocolate tarts, 2 punnets of strawberries and tomatoes and it all came to 15 euros. It was all so fresh, the woman even checked every individual strawberry to make sure it hadn't gon...

We awoke early at 6.45 so we could be making our way to station by 7.30am. The temperature as we left was about 23 degrees so the perfect weather for a leisurely stroll to the station for an 8.30 train. We had chance to stop outside the station for some croissants and some chilled drinks too. With breakfast inside us we boarded our train to Venice.Venice is half way between Florence and Milan so we could have gone from either location however going from Florenc...

We decided to alter our plans a bit to counteract the heat (which had reached 38 by noon). As a result we had a chilled out morning. We woke up at 10 and spent the morning just relaxing and getting some clothes washing done too. At 1.15pm we set off to walk to the station to meet for our tour. The temperature had now risen to 45! As a result we decided it was best to give ourselves as much time as possible to do the walk and therefore gave ourselves 90 minutes t...