Literally the most beautiful bus ride I have ever seen. So many grape orange vineyards and wild poppies. It looked like price and prejudice meets wizard of oz meets sound of music. Those hills were literally singing. So beautiful. We first stopped at the city called Civita that had a population of about 10. But only because the city was on top of this giant cliff that looked like a castle about to fall off the cliff. It was so beautiful. There was a sign on one of the doors that said "Pinocchio" was filmed here as seen on tv. I haven't seen anything on tv about Pinocchio besides Once Upon A Time but I highly doubt they went all the way to a random city in Italy to film Pinocchio's part in the show haha. But that gives you an idea of how much it looked like a fairy tale. So pretty. And the best part: there were so many cute cats. And they were clean and nice and just chilled in the city. I am actually making a very lovely collection of pictures of cats in Europe. It will be famous someday. By the end of the time spent in Civita I realized this is the place I belong. Just give me a castle on top of a cliff that has hardly any people to bother me and overlooks the most gorgeous part of Italy with a bunch of cats and I can die happy. But really...
We then headed to the other beautiful town of Orvieto, Italy. Our professor lived there for about a year and loves this city. I love this city too. A little bigger than Civita and they have some very famous history. Very fortressy and very pre-renaissancey. Loved it. Got some SUPER good kiwi gelato there that was pretty cheap. Fun fact. I will buy gelato over food any time of day. It's a good thing I have a sweet tooth and I don't get sick from anything. Because gelato is cheap and wonderful.. But then again, so is pizza haha but not so cheap.
Finally after our super long journey to Florence we made it in time to explore a little and go out to dinner. Yum! First of all our apartments here are slowly and slowly getting worse and worse quality because the more we travel the more expensive it gets. Which is sad for my wallet. In Greece our hotel room was tiny but it was very nice. Then in Rome the apartment was huge but it was crapy and my friend Caroline literally had an evil spirit living in her apartment. Scary. Everyone in her apartment could feel it :( good thing we are not there anymore. Here we are staying in a hotel that Heather our professor, knows the owner very well. She is really cute and funny and loves everyone. But our shower towels look like table clothes, and the shower is never hot. Also the you need a light key to make all the lights work. Weird. And the soap smells weird. But the nice thing is that our hotel is right by the river and close to all the museums we want to see. I've never seen Room With A View but my professor Heather says our hotel is very close to where that is. Our room does not have a view though :( we open our Peter Pan windows to some lovely scaffolding. It's a good thing that I am very low maintaince though because some of the girls are having a hard time. Especially with the wifi.
We have technically had wifi every hotel we've stayed at. But they each have their own flaws the first place in Greece the wifi only worked if I layed down on the floor right by our front door. In Rome it worked really well except that you couldn't get Skype or texting to work. And here in Florence it only works in the hallway and it kicks you off every 5 minutes or so.
Anyways. So we got to Florence and we have seen so many amazing things. Seen some things like the David, climbed to the top of the bell tower and the dome of the Duomo, seen percius and medusa statues, Birth of Venus and Leanna and the swan which was RUINED for me when my teachers told me that it actually is suppose to be symbolic of zues as the swan being unleashed about to rape Leanna. :( ok I love learning about all these wonderful artworks, but literally all of them are about rape, or the artist was a crazy person, or the artist was raped, or they just made it becaus ether were commissioned to. So lame. Man, sometimes ignorance is bliss.. Can't I just look at a painting of the birth of Venus and pretend she's a cool mermaid instead of finding out that there is dirty meaning in a lot of the symbols.. Oh well, haha that's art I guess.
So my friend Caroline understand me a lot. We decided the other day that we have the same exact mother that loves Vera Bradley.. And actually that's the only thing I can think of haha. But also we have lots of fun. Sometimes during really serious art lectures in museums we talk about how inappropriate some of these paintings are. Also we discussed how this painting of this friar who was looking at Jesus on the cross in the air with this light beams coming down. And we decided that it looked like the friar was flying a Jesus kite. We might be struck by lightning soon but sometimes you have to laugh at all these silly religious paintings. Well that's all for now.
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