Day two in Florence saw us getting up and going for a nice big walk down towards the Ponte Vecchio. The walk there was lovely and we got to go past the Duomo (properly known as the Cattedrale Santa Maria del Fiore. We went into the chapel and it was honestly the most beautiful church I'd ever been in. Not as grand as St Peters in the Vatican but just a beautifully presented church that made you feel peaceful. I lit a candle on behalf of my bella mumma for my Grandad who passed away earlier this year.
After checking out the chapel, we walked towards the Ponte Vecchio which was a great walk in itself because there were so many cute streets to walk across. The Ponte itself afforded us a fantastic view of the river and city both bays and it was fun looking at all the chunky gold jewellery in the 5 billion shops which line the bridge. We walked back towards town and stopped at a local wine bar for a beer and some olives (yes folks! I've been converted! I love olives!!) which was really lovely. The nice chick there took a shine to us and we were asking her how to say Italian phrases properly. She was lovely and patiently explained things to us.
We went back to the markets as I'd seen a purple leather handbag and a red leather jacket the day before, both of which I was madly in love with! I tried on the leather jacket which had a price of 180 Euro on it. The man and Matt then started bargaining, Matt trying to get a bargain basement price of 40 Euro (which the man was slightly disgusted with). We talked him down to 85 in the end but I just couldn't justify the cost. The same happened with my purple handbag which was worth 85 euro and we couldn't bargain him down much so I let it go! Sigh Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all!!
Anyway, a great day was had by all!
PS. Hey Shaps! You know what goes well with Firenze?!
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