Italy, Day 4, Florence

We woke up early again, this trip the jetlag seems to be taking it’s time to disappear. It was raining again, and we had planned to catch the hop-on-hop-off bus. We are not really good at finding out about all the sights, so this would help us to understand what we were looking at and maybe appreciate it a little more.

The tour was pretty good, but the rain stayed the whole day and really started to get cold. I brought only one jacket, and this was a summery jacket so I was cold and wet. Actually starting to shiver continually which was making the day not so pleasant. Carla was only slightly better off.

We had seen a nice pizzeria earlier and decided to go back and try and warm up a little. After another excellent pizza and lasagna we were feeling a little better, but still a bit wet and cold. We had passed a market selling clothes, so I had to go buy a warm top to try and stop the shivering.

It is a really pitty about the weather, as I think it makes such a difference to your feeling of a place. Here in Florence it has been raining all the time, and we have been cold and wet.
We went back to the hotel and decided to warm up a bit before we headed out for dinner. I went for a shower and then jumped into bed to keep warm and close my eyes for 5 minutes… Carla then woke me up at 22:00 and asked if we were still going for dinner… it never happened.