Florence

Oh, Florence was incredible.  For sure one of my favorite cities so far.  It's smaller, which is making me realize how much I liked the smaller cities on this trip like Brussels, and Prague.  You can walk everywhere, you don't have to worry about getting lost, and you get to see everything in the city.  Florence was clean, we had good weather, and the Tuscany architecture and atmosphere was incredible.  We only spent two days here, but I would love to come back and spend a week here in the summer (with my lovely fiancé) when we could swim and bike and enjoy the sunshine.

We also really lucked out with the hostel.  It turned out to be a bed and breakfast, and there weren't many other people staying there.  We had our own room with a view of the city, the served us breakfast, and it was just all around nice.

Some sights:

Typical Tuscany style architecture along the river.

The view of the city from piazzale michelangelo 

Ponte Vechio bridge

The main plazza duomo

David, and all his glory

Super pretty everywhere.  Not a ton of sights to see, but that's okay.

Some food:

We found some 3.50 euro paninis that were to die for.  Ground salami, melt in your mouth mozzarella, mushrooms, and some spicy peppers made a righteous sandwich.  We definitely went more than once.

I'm not sure how Italians aren't enormous.  I feel like I was carboloading the entire time I was in Italy.  So much bread and pizza and pasta.

I take back what I said about gelato just being ice cream.  We went to grom gelato and it was delicious.  More like mousse than ice cream.  Lighter, fluffier and more natural tasting.  I had chocolate, tieremesu, and crem de grom.

There we plenty of dance clubs in Paris, but as I've mentioned before, were not super into that.  We found another craft brewery one night, and the other we found a pub to where locals drink and watch soccer.

We flew to Paris today where we will have two full days before heading back to dublin and heading home!

-RO