We arrived directly from Pisa via the small regional train running down the Arno river, coming to the brightly lit marble-lined streets that makes up the grand city of Florence. To get to our hostel, we had to walk past the Duomo, which completely blew us away. My first thought was, "We have to climb this." The next day we did climb it, and we discovered that the entire interior of the dome is a giant fresco covered in a depiction of judgment day; it was really cool to see. The Duomo remains the tallest building in Florence and as a result, it offers a breathtaking bird's eye view of the whole city with it's classical red-tiled roofs, which have remained virtually unchanged since the Renaissance period. From the Duomo we made our way to the Ponte Vecchio, a famous renaissance bridge that is now covered in expensive jewelery shops. Across the bridge, Colleen stuck her fingers up a stone lion's nose before we headed back to the other side of the river to see the marble statues at the Piazza della Signori. Aside from statues of famous people of history, like Galileo and Machiavelli, there were also renaissance statues of Greek and Roman gods including Perseus with the head of Medusa, and a (copy of) Michelangelo's David. Every corner brought us to a new masterpiece, and every street had it's own charm and wonders. It was one of our favourite cities, and I don't think we'll see another one like it if we searched the whole world.
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