On our first afternoon there we hired bikes and cycled around the city walls. We cycled around once with our tour leader, stopping to look at the sights. We then could go around a few more times by ourselves. Each lap was 4 km.
One day we went to Florence or Firenze. There we went to the Uffizi art gallery. I found it quite boring.[Sabine] I found it very cool looking at the old portraits of royalty.[Chantal]
We went to the Ponte Vecchio bridge. The Ponte Vecchio is famous. It is very old and has lots of jewellery shops on it. We saw all the huge fish in the water waiting for someone to throw food in the water.
On our free day from the tour we walked around the town and climbed the Torre Guinigi [the tower of the seven oaks.]
It had 233 steps and as you went up the stairs there were pictures that told a story of olden times. At the top the view was spectacular, and there were 7 oak trees planted there.
The next day we went to Pisa. There we saw the leaning tower and climbed it. The tower had 308 steps and it was strange climbing on a lean. There was a great view of the Tuscan hills and Pisa itself.
That night Sabine, Kate, Ben (the other children on our tour of Italy) and I made dinner for the adults (with a lot of help from our leader Jason). We made rock melon and ham, figs with reduced balsamic vinegar, pecorino cheese with local honey, spaghetti Bolognese, chick pea salad, a green salad, tomato and mozzarella salad, and a barley salad. For dessert we had straciatella ice cream with strawberries and raspberries.
2 comments:
Wow looks like you girls are having a whale of a time, great photos! - Corinne, can you please give me the exact dates you will be in Barcelona, Paris and Cotswolds??? Lots of love to the globetrotters ;-)
You are so making me jealous!
I have not been to italy but i will definately be going next time i go to europe. That meal sounds delicious you will have to make it for me when you get home.
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