I don’t have the words to describe today, so instead I will just list what happened. 1. On our way to find breakfast, we saw Kermit the Frog walking through the Plaza del Mayor. I should have known right then that it was going to be a strange day. 2. We had breakfast. I ordered […]
You would think that with temperatures in the 100s that Katie and I would be taking it easy in Spain. Despite drinking lots of water and walking slowly, we still managed to fit in a lot today. This morning for breakfast we stopped at a cafe right next to our hostel for churros with chocolate […]
Today is my very first visit to Spain! I am happy to be here with someone who speaks Spanish! This morning in Florence it took at least 5 phone calls to different taxi companies to get a taxi to the airport. One company kept hanging up on Katie, and others kept saying they were busy […]
I was happy to see today that the Spin Cycle writing prompt for this week is about “three good things.” It was saving me from writing a post that would probably come out sounding unintentionally negative. You see, this morning, I was mentally ticking off all the things about Florence that make it “less than” […]
Today after school, Katie and I visited the two major churches of Florence: the Duomo (a.k.a. the Cathedral of Santa Marie del Fiore) and Santa Croce (Holy Cross). We headed first to Santa Croce, stopping for lunch along the way. Unlike Rome, the churches in Florence aren’t free to enter unless you are entering only […]
We took it pretty easy today. After our classes this morning, we headed to a restaurant recommended by our school only to find out it was closed for repairs. So we just headed in the general direction of the Galleria dell’Accademia (where we had tickets for a 2:00 entrance) and along the way stumbled upon […]
Florence is a lot about museums, a lot about art in general, so last night Katie and I began making plans for how to cover it all without wearing ourselves. Ha! That may be impossible. Of course we had class in the morning first. The walk to school is a smidge longer for me than […]
We now take a break from our regularly scheduled travel blog to bring you a cover reveal! A few months ago I was asked by fellow ACFW young adult author J.C. Morrows if I’d help her celebrate the release of her book. Today I’m helping her reveal the cover of her book so here it […]
Last night, I left off with our leaving Siena, so I’ll start today with a quick recap of our arrival in Florence yesterday afternoon. The bus from Siena to Florence took a little over an hour and dropped us off at the main train station. We were told by our school that we could take […]
I started typing this blog post out in the hallway of our little second-floor hotel in Siena. It’s the kind of place where you have to drag your luggage up the stairs because there’s no elevator and second floor really means two flights up. So I spent like an hour in the hallway of the […]
