BK's Travel Blog: Firenze: Florence

On 6/9 we started our morning by loading all of our luggage onto our bus for our ride over to Florence. We were told to be on time because we had reservations at the Galleria dell' Accademia, the museum where David is located. So we took off on the bus and we were making decent time when we ran into a traffic jam. The traffic didn't move for the longest time due to a multiple car accident. While we were on the bus our tour guide was frantically calling to try and change our time of our reservation so that we could still get in. We missed our original time, but were still able to get in an hour later than what our ticket said. Before we entered again we got radios with headphones for another tour of the museum and a little bit around Florence. While in the museum we saw David and some of the unfinished sculptures of Michelangelo, but that is all we looked at before moving on. We stopped at il Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio and Santa Croce along the way, but never went into the two churches I just named. After our tour we went out to have some lunch before meeting back up to go to another hospital.

Our next destination was Careggi hospital where we got another quick tour of the place and got a lecture, which was quite long, of the healthcare at the hospital. After the hospital visit we were finally able to go to our hotel to drop our bags off and get settled in to our new rooms. After resting for a bit we headed out to dinner and then I think for the first time everyone went out that night. We walked around Florence at night for a bit before asking were to go for some good nightlife from some people and they pointed us to the direction of the Arno River and probably a 30 minute walk to find where a lot of locals hand out. The place was just to little buildings that served drinks along the river which was pretty cool. We hung out there for a bit before we couldn't handle getting eaten alive by the bugs anymore, plus we were all kinda tired from our day. So we headed back to the hotel after that.