This past weekend has been nice and relaxing. On Friday, Sarah, Michala, Mariana and I decided to go shopping in Firenze and take an oh so exciting trip to the super Coop, which is the large supermarket in Italy. It was very exciting to finally get some of our own food and get some much needed clothes for myself!
On Saturday, we had an organized trip to Lucca, which is a small town about and hour away from Florence. The town is uber old and the original defensive wall around the city is still intact. We went with a history professor, which was a nice change of pace because he was very relaxed. We only went into 2 churches and barely spent any time in there, a drastic change from our art history professor who likes to talk for hours about one painting.
Then we went to a famous tower that was built by the Guinigi family, which is basically the Medici of Lucca. Anyway, it had beautiful view of the entire city! It was strange though because there were trees planted on the top! The picture below is of Mariana and I on top of the tower.
This below is a view from the tower
After the tower, we went and rented bicycles so we could bike along the top of the wall. Thankfully the sun came out and it was so gorgeous! It was so hilarious too, because most of us have not been on a bike for years, so it must have been such a sight to see 20 girls swaying on their bicycles going around the city on a wall....
Those of us who got used to it quickly went around 2 times, which takes approx 30 minutes, then we followed our professor on a bike tour inside the city. It was a lot tougher to avoid obstacles on crowded streets with lots of people, children, dogs, etc. But it was a blast and definitely the highlight of the week! Below is a picture of Sarah and I on our bikes!
On Saturday, we had an organized trip to Lucca, which is a small town about and hour away from Florence. The town is uber old and the original defensive wall around the city is still intact. We went with a history professor, which was a nice change of pace because he was very relaxed. We only went into 2 churches and barely spent any time in there, a drastic change from our art history professor who likes to talk for hours about one painting.
Then we went to a famous tower that was built by the Guinigi family, which is basically the Medici of Lucca. Anyway, it had beautiful view of the entire city! It was strange though because there were trees planted on the top! The picture below is of Mariana and I on top of the tower.
This below is a view from the tower
After the tower, we went and rented bicycles so we could bike along the top of the wall. Thankfully the sun came out and it was so gorgeous! It was so hilarious too, because most of us have not been on a bike for years, so it must have been such a sight to see 20 girls swaying on their bicycles going around the city on a wall....
Those of us who got used to it quickly went around 2 times, which takes approx 30 minutes, then we followed our professor on a bike tour inside the city. It was a lot tougher to avoid obstacles on crowded streets with lots of people, children, dogs, etc. But it was a blast and definitely the highlight of the week! Below is a picture of Sarah and I on our bikes!
Today was spent at the villa, doing work and preparing for my two midterms this week! Ugh! So this Thursday, spring break starts for me. I won't be bringing my computer with me so I won't be updating for a while. I will be going to Oxford/London Friday-Sunday, then flying to Barcelona. I will be in Barcelona until Thursday when I go to Paris. Sarah and I will be traveling together in Barcelona and Paris and it should be fabulous! I will update once I am back from my adventures!!
Ciao!
Ciao!
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