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19 Towns in 19 Days!
Posted by Jess
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1:08 PM
Hey Everyone!
Mum and Meish at the top of the Duomo looking cute
How are you all? Good I do hope =)
Before I begin this post I need to say that I happen to have some of THE best grandparents in the world -- who not only read this blog but have figured out how to post comments on it!! How very impressive is that?!? So I just needed to tell everyone that they are awesome. =)
So I've been away for 19 days now and standing in Meish's kitchen just then we figured out that I've also been to 19 cities in the last 19 days!! How crazy is that! I'm happy to be staying in Florence for the next 5 days because I'm completely exhausted!!
Mum and Dad are back in Jersey now which is sad but we had a wonderful few days wandering around Tuscany. We stayed in a small town on the side of a hill which had one restaurant, it was so incredibly pretty!! We saw lots of tiny pretty towns, most of them founded in medieval times...including one that still had the wall surrounding the town that had been built in the 1200's! Went to the Baci chocolate factory, saw two (really smelly) thermal springs, ate LOTS of yummy food, tried some wines and then to cap it all off stayed the night in San Gimignano, a small town with 11 towers which, even in the pouring rain was stunning.
Yesterday we came back to Florence and climbed all 400 and something stairs to the top of the Duomo, it was a lovely clear day and when we got to the top you could see everything, even pictures don't do it justice. It was such a lovely view, well worth all those bloody stairs!
Tomorrow is Sunday and Meish and I are going to go to a service at the Duomo, then have some brunch and depending on the weather cross the river and visit the Pitti Palace. Should be good fun!
So thats it for now, as always I'll put some pics bellow.
Hope alls well,
Hope alls well,
love
jess xox
ps. HOPE YOU HAD A WONDERFUL 21st DIANA!! SORRY FOR NOT SAYING IT WAS ME ON THE PHONE ;) I'll email soon. xoxo
Me with the 800 year old town wall in the background...
The town were we stayed, Rocca D'Orcia or something like that. We stayed just under the big fort on the top of the hill.
Meish and I in Montalpucino...this city was also on a hill (most common as it was easiest to protect from the enemy on a hill), everything was bellow the main square and very exhausting to walk around!!
Mum and Meish at the top of the Duomo looking cute
Mum, Dad and Meish in Florence!
