Saturday, November 23, 2013

Florence - Piazzale Michelangelo


Piazzale Michelangelo:
When you come to Florence, you must come here for the panoramic view of Florence..especially come right before the sunset...

We walked to the main train station and took bus #12 to Piazzale Michelangelo…  We bought the bus tickets from the bus driver.  It was a nice ride; it took about 30 minutes to drive up the hill (some people suggested to take a hike up there)…

It was a magnificent view of Florence.  We were waiting for the sunset..I made a reservation at the restaurant up there at around 7 (just about the sunset time).  I thought we could sit at the terrace to enjoy the sunset, but unfortunately the terrace was closed.  I was a little disappointed, there was nobody inside as it was still a little early.


La Loggia del Piazzale Michelangelo 

We picked the table that was closest to the door…it was quite nice inside.  We ordered some wine and enjoyed a little of sunset :)

some salad to start with

Rabbit meat ….. it was quite moist… 

It was my first time tasting rabbit meat…….it was quite good..but it kinda tasted like chicken…..

Sea bass

The ambience of the restaurant was quite good.  The food was not bad and it wasn't very expensive.  I would recommend to try this when you want to have a comfortable meal at Piazzale Michelangelo.

After a nice dinner, we walked around and took some very nice night shots with tripod.

Bus ride back to town:
We thought we could take the same bus back to town, but the bus driver turned us away saying this was the last stop….We actually needed to take bus #13 which was across the road.  We waited for a while and when bus #13 finally came, we went up to the bus driver to buy the tickets…and he said he only had 1 ticket to sell…and he couldn't accept cash.  I asked him so what do i do? He told me to get off the bus to buy the bus tickets…he was pointing at the parking lot.  In the end we were running back and forth, trying to figure out what he was talking about….it took a good ten minutes before we could take the bus back to town.  Good that it was probably his break time, or else we would have to wait for another 30 minutes for the next bus to come.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Florence - Uffizi Gallery

View from Uffizi Gallery's patio
We pre-booked tickets for the Uffizi Gallery at 12:15pm online.  We arrived early and we went to the ticket office to get tickets with our reservation number, and we got in quickly.

View from window
Uffizi was huge; there were a lot of Roman sculptures and awesome paintings....But it was a little overwhelming (maybe after so many museums)....so eventually we lost interest....


After the Uffizi, we walked around the Duomo and we bought some Belgium waffle with ice cream.  It was so chill...such an awesome day :)

We went back to the hotel to chill and got some free drinks from the Hotel's roof terrace....pretty nice view :)


Very nice weather...can't ask for more... :) We chilled for a while before we go to the Piazzale Michelangelo