Delayed Gap Year: Florence, Italy

Another city, another train. We left Salerno, Italy for Florence.

Quacker Jack on the train to Florence.

He likes a bird's eye view.

This machine was our nemesis. Truly the most frustrating washing machine I've ever encountered. Google Translate couldn't even help with what settings meant.

We thought we had seen tiny cars in Rome-the cars in Florence take the cake for tiny. I'm pretty sure this is a golf cart.

Brunelleschi's Dome at the Florence Cathedral - it was the inspiration for many other domed buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral in Rome and the U.S. Capitol Building.

The outside is in the process of being cleaned. You can tell how badly it needed it by comparing the part of the church in the front left of the picture to the part in the center background.

That's a three-wheeled car. I'm telling you, tee-niny cars everywhere.

A street near the cathedral square:

I think the bike might be longer than the car.

Florence is home to many famous and beautiful works of art. Probably the most famous is the statue of David. It is so famous, the wait to get in to see him is hours long. We decided to skip that line and take a photo of one of the many replicas that are about town. Quacker Jack helped with censoring for nudity.

Another square in Florence. Every street and square we visited made me feel like I was in a Shakespearean play. Doesn't it look like what you'd imagine?

Quacker Jack found Pinocchio.

Took this picture for my brother-if it weren't a girl's cropped-top, it would have come home to him. Although he could probably rock a girl's cropped-top...

The weather was gorgeous for our last day in Florence.

Good-bye Italy! We took a train from Florence to Innsbruck, Austria. It was so neat to see the landscape change as we headed further and further north into the Alps.