Day 3 - Travel and Florence
We checked out and went for a little walk around the top of Montecatini before getting a taxi to the train station. A bunch of Italian school teenagers were on our train as well but we managed to get a seat pretty easy with out luggage. We arrived at Florence and walked to the Airbnb which was about 20 minutes walk away. We arrived at about half 1 so the sun was beating down.
We made it to the little apartment and freshened up. We were really near to the Ponte Vecchio which is the bridge with loads of fancy jewelry shops on it.
We walked and got some food at a fancy looking bakery nearby. I had a salami pizza slice and arranicie ball (spelling?) and Sophie had a margarita pizza slice and a potato crocette. We were starving after traveling for most of the morning and early afternoon so we pretty much chose the first place but it was really good.
We explored a little bit and ended up drinking a little wine in a small little shop. Some tourists came and took photos of the shop because it looked nice inside and we were sitting outside. So we are guaranteed to be in some Asian tourists photos which is fun.
We went back to the Airbnb and got changed before heading out and stopped at a wine bar nearby. We ummed and arred about getting food but decided to get some. There was this American couple sat in front of us talking to another couple that they had met at the wine bar. The American couple had trapped the other people into a conversation, or at least that's what we thought. "Do you play much soccer nowadays" was one of the questions asked. Boring. We got food. I got a carbonara which I was nervous about because they can be too cheesy for me but it was incredible. The bacon/pork fat was lovely. Sophie had a caprese salad which was full of rocket which she doesn't like.
We went from there up to the high point of the city called Piazzale Michelangelo. We took some beers and a bottle of red. It was a steep hill to get there and we got gelato on the way. I was exhausted on the way up but Sophie seemed to be fine and even said that it wasn't too bad. I explained that it was because my breathing had got out of wack because of the ice-cream. Breathe in, lick, breathe out, lick etc but I don't know if that was the true case.
We took a few photos and sat on the seats and watched the sunset. We struggled to get the red open but I asked someone and they helped out. There was a guy playing guitar solos of songs which was nice but he only played for around 45 minutes. While we were there we seen some Asian couple get engaged and another Asian couple come into the centre of the steps of people and get photos.
It was a lovely place to sit and look at all of Florence with a load of people doing the same thing.
We were wondering what to do after as I was a few beers down and Sophie was half a wine down plus more. We went to an Irish bar because it said it had karaoke on but when we got there we couldn't hear any sounds of it. We sat outside in the nice plaza square and had a drink. I needed a wee so went in and that's when I seen the karaoke. It was around 8 people, mostly American singing bohemian rhapsody. We went down and listened for a bit and chooe a song to sing together. More Americans came down and I guess they were under 21 as they seemed very nervous/excited to drink.
We sang Britney spears hit me baby one more time. If there's ever an awkward experience I'd rather go all in than try and skirt the line. I stood on the top of a table straddling an American man. It made me and Sophie laugh which is all that matters but I hope they had fun as well. They left almost immediately after.
We came back to the room and that was the day.
Except it wasn't. I closed my eyes to fall asleep and I heard a guggle and then Sophie made some horrible noises. Sophie threw up all on the bed and on her dress. I got her into the toilet to keep going but the sick was on the 2 bedsheets and down to the mattress. I cleaned up a bit of sick by Sophie's side of the bed and went back to sleep.
I could hear more growls and guggles from Sophie so I told her to go to the toilet. She threw up on the seat and a bit on the floor.
I cleaned up the bathroom and took all the sheets off the bed. Too much gross sick that I had sobered up.
