So Italy, was February 18th until the 22nd. It was amazing, but getting there was pretty much a pain. First, on Thursday, we had a two hour train ride to Lyon, then we had to switch at Dijon and I had to ride in my first couchette, or sleeper train, from Dijon to Florence. The couchette was not nearly as bad as I thought it would be, but I would have enjoyed a nice complimentary breakfast when I woke up- no such luck. Regardless, we arrived on Friday morning an hour late, and Ally was waiting for us. Thank God for my responsible friends because we had trouble getting in touch with her but she waited at the train station for 90 minutes and met us there. We expected to nap as soon as we found our hostile, but then it took an hour and a half to find and considering none of us speak Italian it was pretty frustrating. Eventually a nice Italian man riding his bicycle heard us complaining that we can't find it and it turned out we were about ten feet away, he took us to the door. Once we got there, we threw our luggage down and started the day. We had a pastry and a cappuccino for breakfast then, of course, some pizza for lunch. It was delicious. After lunch we did some sight-seeing. We went to churches, the Ponte Vecchio, and a museum. We were able to see Michaelangelo's David which was really cool, and of course everyone snuck a picture, but when I tried the security guard came over and yelled at me in Italian. After touring a bit we had dinner at a spanish restaurant with some margaritas which were delicious. We also had some gelatto and I am thankful we do not have that here because it was delicious and I would probably eat it three times a day. After dessert, we went back and slept because we had a wine tour at 8am Saturday morning in Chianty.
Saturday was really cool. Ally made plans to us to go on a wine tour. First we went on a nice tour of the vineyards. By nice tour I really mean hike, but it was still fun. After seeing the vineyards and a couple of Italian churches we had a delicious lunch waiting for us complete with plenty of wine. We got t meet the man who produced the wine and he taught us how to properly swirl and sniff the wine to determine the alcohol content. It was really fun and it was exactly what I wanted to do in Italy. That night we went to an Italian restaurant where I probably had the best lasagna I have ever tasted.
Sunday, we spent 16 hours on a train. It was boring but we had food and ipods to keep us occupied. We had to go from Florence to Milan, then Milan to Nice and Nice to Montpellier. I loved seeing Ally and I am so greatful we got to go there!
Next we went to Spain...
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