We were dropped off a bit early in Florence and happened along an amazing little restaurant where we may have had the best meal of our trip. They are famous for doing the spaghetti in the cheese wheel (which a woman near us got so we were able to watch it happen) but we decided to order fish. Kirk had octopus and I had a white fish. It was beautiful and delicious. They served my fish in baked bread and removed it for me to eat. Just outstanding!
Easy, lovely train ride where we sat across a couple from Marin county and chatted the entire time.
Arrived in Rome to our first scam - the taxi w no meter! $50 euro for a 10 min trip to our lovely hotel. Oy vey. We knew it and our hotel was very apologetic about it. Oh well. Then we didn’t realize how COMPLETELY INSANE it would be here regarding meals. It’s just wall to wall people everywhere! We ended up wondering around just knowing our meal would be ok but we were starving. Second scam! A restaurant waving people in after every other restaurant we went to was booked. We had to take a chance. First they encouraged us to buy the most expensive wine we never heard of (we declined), took forever to take our order and they weren’t very busy, and then they kept telling us to write in a tip and pointing where to do it. Kirk kept saying ‘we’re good’. To be fair our salads were good but Kirks chicken and potatoes was more chicken strips and fries! My spaghetti was fine. And that bill was the same as our 5star lunch which was 100 times better in all ways.
Saw a very ornate baroque church.
Our hotel is gorgeous. It’s the converted Singer factory with marble everywhere. Rooftop bar and gorgeous restaurant not to mention a super comfy bed. 😴
Beautiful 💕 M
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