We had a early start today....6:15 wake up yaaay. A least we had a lovely breakfast, croissants, pastries and even hot chocolate. We then headed off to the Vatican City museum. We met up with our local tour guide...number 24. She was very passionate about the art work that we saw. We saw sculptures from famous sculptors including Davinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Number 24 gave us so much history on the art that we saw it was very hard to remember everything that she explained to us. From what i remember there was about 28 different museums. We were only able to experience the beauty of a few. After the 2 hour tour with number 24 we followed Dionysia to the bus to travel to Florence. The 4 hour bus ride to Florence was much more pleasant now that we had our amazing bus driver Tony back. Once we arrived in Florence we had 2 hours of free time to shop, eat and go in the Santa Maria del Fiore. Santa Maria del Fiore was beautiful. The church started to be built in September 1296 according to the plans made by Arnolfo di Cambio. The high ceilings, floor to ceiling painting and stained glass windows combined to make one of the most beautiful churches that we saw. After the free time was over we met up with a local tour guide to have a waling tour of the city. We were brought to many famous sites. Probably the most rememberable was the bridge Ponte Vecchio. This bridge was the only one that was not blown up in the second world war by Hitler simply because of its beauty. After the walking tour we got back on the bus and traveled to our hotel. After dropping our stuff off we headed down to the restaurant to have some supper. On the menu for tonight was pasta, pork, potatoes and of course ice cream for desert. After showering the days sweat off we get to have a nice long sleep.
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