Saturday, June 2, 2007

Cinque Terra & Florence

Ok so after La Spezia went to Cinque Terra...so amazingly beautiful. I hiked the 5 hour trail from the first city to the fifth, i definitely like number 2 (in my head and the direction i went, west to east) best. The first hike was really hard and they got gradually easier til the last one was really just walking along a sidewalk. They are built right into the cliffs with step terraces of grapes, olives, oranges, lemons, etc...the trail smells of flowers and herbs and fruits, so good. Plus the ocean is lapping at the rocks 200 feet down, calmly the day I was there but Im sure in a storm it gets crazy. Well left there, didnt have a room so i stayed up all nite just doing whatever and headed to pisa in the morning. slept some on the train and went down to the pisa tower. Everyone says it sucks but i thought it was really cool, it was really ornate and beautiful and oh yeh slightly tipped to the side...who cares right? It wouldnt be famous if it hadnt been a failure so heres to the designer! So got picture and headed to florence.. I gotta say florence has been one of my favorite cities so far.. So much history, so much art, so much walking, so many street vendors. I love it here. I stayed two nites (tonite is my second) at this hostel that has the most incredible breakfast, plus free internet. awesome. Saw all kinds of art today, including david by both michaelangelo and donatello. well prolly gonna go to the main museum tomorrow morning but as it is 2 am now its time to say goodnite, prolly head to venice tomorrow afternoonish, spend 2 nites there about and then head down to rome before.....ROMANIA!

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