Our last booked tour of the trip was today: a cycling trip from Florence out into the Tuscan countryside. It wasn't a ton of cycling (just over 11 miles total) but it was still fantastic. I booked this through Artviva tours in Florence (this is the tour) and I would…
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Tonight for dinner, we went here: We walked in around 8:45pm (right smack in the middle of Florence dinner time…maybe a little on the early side even) and we made the "tavolo per due" sign with a question mark look on our faces and were told very nicely "within 10…
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Today we started on the early side and headed across the river to the Gallerie dell'Accademia (9am reserved tickets) to see Michelangelo's David (among other things). I sneaked a forbidden photo. (Okay I snuck two.) There were also several unfinished sculptures by Michelangelo and it was so cool to see…
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So, there are a couple types of tours: (1) the tour in a giant brightly colored and tour-branded bus full of people, and (2) the small group tour in a nondescript van with a maximum of only 8 people. While in theory this smaller group tour might sound much more…
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Yesterday, we rented another Fiat 500 to do some more exploring at our own pace (which seems to be "fast"). We put our bikes in the back of the Cinquecento and headed for Lucca this time. Lucca was founded by the Etruscans and became a Roman colony in 180 BC.…
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We’ve eaten live sea urchin and fugu. We’ve towed a loaded Airstream down the windingest parts of Highway 1 on the California coast, and over 11,000ft passes in Colorado. We’ve flown our own airplane into the San Juan Islands, Jackson Hole, and Yellowstone Park. We’ve ridden centuries on a tandem…
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Today, we drove around Tuscany in another Fiat Cinquecento. This time though, it was a new one, rented from Hertz. It was white, but had far less personality than our vintage Roberto had. By the end of the (very full) day, we still hadn't come up with a name for…
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We got back to our apartment after the FANTASTIC Fiat 500 Tour today and parked our bikes in the courtyard. They really look like they belong here, don't they? Next, we headed across the river to check out a shoe shop I read about online: Leonardo Shoes — (leather shoes hand…
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Okay well if this isn't the cutest and coolest way to tour the Tuscan countryside, I don't know what is. Today we rode our bikes out of town a little ways at met up with the folks at the 500 Touring Club, Beppe and Andrea. If you visit Florence, you…
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This afternoon (after we got back from the market) we decided to explore our neighborhood a bit. We headed down to check out the Santo Spirito Basilica, which is super plain on the outside and apparently really not plain on the inside. It was closed when we got there so…
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