Bonjourno from Florence, Italy!
Sunday 10th September 9pm
Should I start this blog with the drama or do you need me to do the kiss, kick, kiss method?
No comment?? OK, I'll do what I think.
Florence is divine! It is somewhere I have always wanted to visit and Yippee, I'm here!! We are staying right in the centre of town just 1 minute walk from the Duomo, the famous landmark church and also near the Ponte Vecchio (bridge). We wandered around the town and have mentally spent all our money on the leather products that Florence is famous for and the jewellery stores that line the ENTIRE Ponte Vecchio bridge. Well, mum and I have been seriously window shopping. Dad has been following along behind us, finding small things to amuse himself while we go into another shop. (He is very good to us). We will explore the town a bit more tomorrow as we have two nights here and I will blog tomorrow to tell you more news about that (we have free internet here at the hotel - can you tell...?).
We arrived in Italy yesterday and it wasn't the best introduction. Half an hour since the border we hit a traffic jam and spent 2 hours at a standstill. We exited the next road (along wthe the other 10000 cars that were infront or behind us) and stopped and had tea before moving on as we couldn't find accomodation there. Where we finally stayed was super dodgy. There was no shower, no room service and the toliet was 10 metres away. As you may have guessed we slept in the car. It wasn't a wholly unpleasant thing but something mum and I want to avoid in the future.
We had stayed east of Marseilles the night before and travelled through Nìce in the morning. It took 2 hours to leave Nìce (it is not so nice!!) and headed to Monaco. Because we had driven the entire day before from Paris to Marseilles, it was heaven to get out of the car and look around. I have to confess, we are all suffering from a little car-fever. Tempers have frayed at times and words have been spoken but we are still friends (or pretend to be because we have 7 more days together). We became human again for the two hours we spent in Monaco, which is its own country making my grand total of countries visited to 5.
Apart from our last day in Paris we have basically travelled in the car so I don't have too much to report (that could be read and wouldn't be #?$!#ì ed (bleeped was what I meant for all you who thought I was being rude).
Our last day in Paris was divine! We went to the remaining things on our tourist list which included Montmarte, which is the only hill in the city of Paris and has a great view, Moulin Rouge, which is over-rated and the Eiffel Tower lit up, which is sooo not over-rated. That was definitely the highlight of the day (after reading all your lovely comments on my blog of course!). It was beautiful. Dad went up again and mum and I had a 'moment' together when the lights allover it began to flash. It was awesome! We caught the metro back to the hotel (metro being train), which is actually really easy to use. Unless you don't like being jammed in like Le Sardine'.
As you can probably tell - Italy has better keyboards. No weird letter placements here. I will try to blog tomorrow while we have access to the internet in the hotel.
Thank you for all the comments. It is nice to know that you are interested (by your comments I can tell you have read the blog - that's good, there will be a test later!)
I really appreciate the time you have spent making contact with me. It is great to hear from you all!
Well, no French men have come after me and so far no Italian men, although I got our pizza (authentic Italian!!!!!!) tonight for cheaper because the cashier was talking to me......
Anyway I must fly, others want the computer.
Talk to you soon.
Love Kym
Sunday 10th September 9pm
Should I start this blog with the drama or do you need me to do the kiss, kick, kiss method?
No comment?? OK, I'll do what I think.
Florence is divine! It is somewhere I have always wanted to visit and Yippee, I'm here!! We are staying right in the centre of town just 1 minute walk from the Duomo, the famous landmark church and also near the Ponte Vecchio (bridge). We wandered around the town and have mentally spent all our money on the leather products that Florence is famous for and the jewellery stores that line the ENTIRE Ponte Vecchio bridge. Well, mum and I have been seriously window shopping. Dad has been following along behind us, finding small things to amuse himself while we go into another shop. (He is very good to us). We will explore the town a bit more tomorrow as we have two nights here and I will blog tomorrow to tell you more news about that (we have free internet here at the hotel - can you tell...?).
We arrived in Italy yesterday and it wasn't the best introduction. Half an hour since the border we hit a traffic jam and spent 2 hours at a standstill. We exited the next road (along wthe the other 10000 cars that were infront or behind us) and stopped and had tea before moving on as we couldn't find accomodation there. Where we finally stayed was super dodgy. There was no shower, no room service and the toliet was 10 metres away. As you may have guessed we slept in the car. It wasn't a wholly unpleasant thing but something mum and I want to avoid in the future.
We had stayed east of Marseilles the night before and travelled through Nìce in the morning. It took 2 hours to leave Nìce (it is not so nice!!) and headed to Monaco. Because we had driven the entire day before from Paris to Marseilles, it was heaven to get out of the car and look around. I have to confess, we are all suffering from a little car-fever. Tempers have frayed at times and words have been spoken but we are still friends (or pretend to be because we have 7 more days together). We became human again for the two hours we spent in Monaco, which is its own country making my grand total of countries visited to 5.
Apart from our last day in Paris we have basically travelled in the car so I don't have too much to report (that could be read and wouldn't be #?$!#ì ed (bleeped was what I meant for all you who thought I was being rude).
Our last day in Paris was divine! We went to the remaining things on our tourist list which included Montmarte, which is the only hill in the city of Paris and has a great view, Moulin Rouge, which is over-rated and the Eiffel Tower lit up, which is sooo not over-rated. That was definitely the highlight of the day (after reading all your lovely comments on my blog of course!). It was beautiful. Dad went up again and mum and I had a 'moment' together when the lights allover it began to flash. It was awesome! We caught the metro back to the hotel (metro being train), which is actually really easy to use. Unless you don't like being jammed in like Le Sardine'.
As you can probably tell - Italy has better keyboards. No weird letter placements here. I will try to blog tomorrow while we have access to the internet in the hotel.
Thank you for all the comments. It is nice to know that you are interested (by your comments I can tell you have read the blog - that's good, there will be a test later!)
I really appreciate the time you have spent making contact with me. It is great to hear from you all!
Well, no French men have come after me and so far no Italian men, although I got our pizza (authentic Italian!!!!!!) tonight for cheaper because the cashier was talking to me......
Anyway I must fly, others want the computer.
Talk to you soon.
Love Kym
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12:00 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks for the commentary. Isn't the countryside lovely in Europe. Europe is so different to Australia, with the quaint villages etc. You are giving me flashbacks to when we travelled Europe so many years ago.
Love to all
Jan
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Anonymous, at 2:07 PM
Bonjourno! I hope you are enjoying Italy now that you are finally there. What a shame that such perfect scenery and exciting sights must be marred by something as common as traffic jams! Especially when you are keen to get to the next place on your itinerary. Never mind, I suppose you must all take a deep breath and remember that you are actually stuck in traffic in a foreign country, so that must mean you are on holiday and seeing something we all aren't! It's really great to hear you speaking of far away countries with such ease and familiarity. The movies will never be the same for you again as you'll have seen so many places and you'll know if they've touched something up! Hope the next few days go smoothly for you and you can all relax and enjoy. Look forward to your next entry and love you lots. Haylee.
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Anonymous, at 6:14 PM
HI Kym
Just to let you know that our housewarming went well. Had lost of friends, family and neigbours turn up. Glad some of your dreams are living up to the expectation in real life, shame about the traffic (do I pass the test for reading the blog???)
Love
Rochelle
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