Do I need to tell you where we are? I kind of doubt it!

After another restless night (I guess this will just be the way it is for me so I’m not going to stress about it) we woke and headed to breakfast. I will miss these lovely breakfasts and the kind staff here at Antica Locanda Leonardo. As another couple said, it feels like an oasis.

Then off to the train station. We opted for a taxi rather than dealing with the subway. We just weren’t up for lugging our luggage (hm, are those two words related? I’m betting so!) for around 15 minutes. We arrived too early for the train, and as Dan said, it was a pretty crazy train station. SO many people milling about, and seemingly no security for the trains at all, which was quite different than other train stations. Never showed a passport. Never had luggage scanned and, as it turned out, I never even had to show my ticket! (Dan did have his scanned by someone while on the train … perhaps it connected to mine?) The ride itself was easy and seemed to go quite quickly.

Hm … will this video work, I wonder?

On one potion of the trip we were in tunnel after tunnel, with barely a few seconds of light before we went back in. I was very surprised by that.

We arrived at the next city and went directly (okay … as directly as we can manage anyway) to our hotel. For the first time there is no lift and we are on the 3rd floor. Keep in mind in Europe there is a 0 floor, so this is floor 4 to us in the US. Guess we’ll be getting our stairs in! (Although nothing like walking in Lisbon or Porto, really.) Our room is nice — and the largest bed we’ve had.

Then it was wandering time. Plus a bit of food, since the train snack was pretty darn awful.

We wandered more, but we didn’t seem to have a lot of energy and weren’t willing to wait for the sunset by the river.

Finally we ended up right next to our hotel for dinner, at Trattoria Antellesi. Good food, and very friendly staff. We ended the meal with the server’s offer of limoncello. YUM! It reminded us that we were going to make that since we have so many lemons at home.

So … I’m assuming most everyone has figured out what city we are in by now, right? The photos give it away, I hope. But in case you haven’t …

HELLO FIRENZE! (Known to many of us as Florence.)

And now arrivederci. See you tomorrow when I post about the day’s adventures.