Day 1 – Florence to Pontassieve

What a day!

Finished my blog of day ‘0’ at 220am – I know I should have started it before 10pm …. So I set the alarm for 0700. Morning consisted of a mad session of packing before dropping my main bag off for tranship at 0830. Should have packed up my 35 litre daypack beforehand and lifted it!

Breakfast was pretty good, Café Late machine, orange juice, great muesli and a tasty croissant. Relearning lessons after 8 years of 5 star – Lesson 1 – Simple can be good.

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Florence – Day 0

 

Yesterday I said goodbye to Amanda & Jack in Rome and jumped on the high speed train to Florence – impressive – 90 minutes later I was walking through Florence – an amazing medieval city imbued with masterpieces of architecture, painting, inventions, design and sculpture that formed the heart of the Renaissance. It really is quite amazing how concentrated the innovation was..  […]