{"id":17,"date":"2010-11-14T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/?p=17"},"modified":"2010-11-14T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T10:44:00","slug":"florence-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffreyandanna.us\/blog\/florence-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

We spent a couple of days in Florence as the second leg of the Italy portion of our trip. Florence is beautiful, and quaint – at least in comparison to the really large European cities.<\/p>\n

The city center is very tourist-centric, full of clothing shops and restaurants. We’re not big on shopping, so we spent a lot of time walking around and just enjoying the old streets, and soaking in the atmosphere. We ate some great pizza and pasta, and some amazing gelato from a place called GROM (thanks to Jeffrey’s friend Ben for all the recommendations!). GROM also had spectacular hot chocolate … which we can say truthfully because we had it two times over the course of our visit.<\/p>\n

We also visited the Uffizi Gallery<\/a>, which, as you can imagine, had a lot of really really old art and sculptures. Very cool.<\/p>\n

Here are some photos! It rained a lot while we were there, so we didn’t take too many.<\/p>\n

Anna next to the “Anna” store:<\/p>\n

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Streets of Florence:<\/p>\n

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The Arno River<\/a> and Florence hillside:<\/p>\n

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View from Giotto’s Campanile<\/a> (we climbed many many steep stairs to get up there):<\/p>\n

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Top of Giotto’s Campanile in the daytime:<\/p>\n

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Top of the Florence Cathedral<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Steps to the Piazzale Michelangelo<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Jeffrey makes a new friend on the steps:<\/p>\n

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We found a cemetery on the way to the Piazzale Michelangelo:<\/p>\n

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We got this photo from the top of the Piazzale before it started pouring rain – too much rain to take any more. At that point, we decided to leave for Rome.<\/p>\n

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