Florence- an amazingly dull day
Our reservations ended this morning, so we went to breakfast and went to pack up for Florence. We are well practiced in unpacking and packing things by now. After loading everything and checking out of the hotel, we went onward to our three-hour drive to Florence. I was looking forward to looking at some Renaissance art, but we didn’t make reservations at the Academia Gallery or the Uffizi Gallery. Those were also closed tomorrow. I really didn’t want to go out in the rain- it was rather depressing. Both Evan and I didn’t know what to do in Florence and we needed to orient ourselves. So we did research online (the hotel offered Wi-Fi for a price), blogged a bit, and ate dinner at the bar in the hotel. All the food was frozen and heated up, but it was affordable. It wasn’t bad food, but it wasn’t spectacular. We also had a pretty decent dessert, a chocolate shell of ice cream filled with vanilla ice cream. They didn’t accept cash; it was billed to your hotel room. The hotel (Grifone) reminded me of a Marriott- it was rather Americanized. We went to sleep early, planning on going to some major places that were open tomorrow.