Florence , Part 1

Our flight from Paris-Orly was delayed about 2 hours because of bad weather, and we had to pay a 25 euro fine after getting off the train to get on the train to Orly. Apparently, you had to buy a special ticket even though no one told us, then we had to buy a ticket to the airport, so we weren't too happy. Then after arriving in Pisa we took a hour train to Florence where we met some Americans studying there, halfway through the conversation they start talking about how people they knew got mugged by people and all these bad things that happened. So to say the least, when we got off the train, we were a bit nervous, it didn't help that it was midnight. We couldn't take a cab because we had vowed not to take cabs on this trip, so we were walking around Florence at night, we did a complete circle before we found our way at about 2:30 in the morning. It was a lot of fun to say the least.


The Swiss Alps on the way to Italy


We flew by a storm and I was lucky enough to catch the lightning



The Duomo





Ponte Vecchio