Heading to Florence

Me trying to sleep on the train.


We took the long walk to the train station with all of our luggage. What joy! We took a train to Florence at it was a very uncomfortable train. We were all so tired and we had to get up early to meet the train. We were all trying to sleep on the train and there were just really uncomfortable head rests, they put you head forward at a weird angle. Anyway, we got checked into our hotel, the Hotel Bellettini. The service is awesome. There was this young guy manning the front desk, and they loaded our luggage in this tiny elevator, and then when our rooms got ready, he carried our luggage up the stairs, well actually ran up the stairs, and they are so helpful and they really put the customer first. It is right in down town Florence and it has all this cool furniture and wardrobes and dressers in the rooms. Our room has 4 girls in it so it is pretty big but the air conditioner doesn't work to great, so it really gets hot during the day. At night we open the window wide but it is so noisy on the street, and I have several mosquito bites but it is way too hot to sleep if we don't open them. This is my favorite hotel. We went to lunch at this place Emael (guy at the front desk) recommended, and it was fantastic and pretty cheap. Then several us hit the markets that are near by and then we had an afternoon nap, it was so hot in our room, then we just walked around a little bit at night. We found this great Gelato place down the street from our hotel, the cheapest one that we have found and it is so yummy and the lady is so nice.