Il Duomo di Firenze, Florence, Italy
We finally got a chance to sleep in a bit! Check out was at 10am, so we slept in until 9, packed, and walked over to the train station around 10am. There is a pretty good food market in the train station so we decided to wait there and grab a bite to eat while waiting for our 11:50am train. We shared a crepe and a waffle, each with an overwhelming amount of nutella spread on top. So much so that we had to remove some of the nutella just to finish the meal. Dan also got two coffees since there was a really good coffee stand there too! Then we jumped on our train to Florence!
View from our patio of Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy
Walking across Ponte Vecchio the first of many times after coffee with Ben & Isabel
Once arriving at the train station in Florence we walked to our Airbnb. The place we got was incredible. We had no idea it would be so nice, but we knew it had a great location. Once we walked into our airbnb we looked out the patio across the Arno River only to find our friend Ben sitting on his hotel patio. We sent him a message and waved across the river at each other. After settling in we went across the river to his hotel, Portrait Hotel, to catch up and grab a coffee with both Ben and Isabel. They invited us to a dinner that night at Trattoria Cammillo. Between coffee and dinner we just walked around Florence a bit to explore. For dinner, they basically took over the restaurant with how many people they had (even though this was not part of the wedding) and the food and wine was just pouring out. All of the food was amazing, this was one of the places that our airbnb host suggested that we must go, so that worked out. We also had a chance to sit with Isabel's mom at this dinner which was really nice as we've never met and it was nice to catch her before a crazy weekend. After all the intense eating, we still had room in our stomachs for gelato. We ended the night with a scoop of stracciatella gelato from Gelateria la Carraia.