Favorite Florence Pictures

Hey, I know its been a while. I want to share the remainder of my some of my favorite Italy pictures. Our next stop after Venice was Florence!


The Ponte Vecchio Bridge


All of the jewelry stores on the bridge


So Pretty!


Statues near the Uffizi Gallery






Walking up the 400 plus steps of the Duomo

Beautiful Ceiling in the Duomo


Duomo from the Outside



Eating Gelato of course!!





The steps up the Duomo


Made it to the top!


View from the top!





















Line to see the David at the Accademia

Favorite Venice Pictures: Part II

San Marco Basilica

Us at the top of San Marco Basilica



Overlooking San Marco Square





Overlooking the Doge's Palace







The city from the top of the bell tower!





Major flooding!








Rialto Bridge



A picture to give you some perspective on the flooding.























Bridge of Sigh's (because you could hear the sighs of the prisoners going to jail in the Doge's Palace.


Gondola ride!!


Our cute driver!!


Where Mozart lived when he was in Venice. (the view from the gondola ride)

So, those are the best pictures of our time in Venice. Hope you like them. It was really so beautiful there and unlike anywhere else I had been before. The entire city is literally in water. It is pretty mind-blowing. How did they build the buildings? Where does the plumbing go? These are some of the many things we pondered while walking through the beautiful streets.

Next up: Florence and Rome, so stay tuned!

Favorite Venice Pictures

Hey! I am finally getting around to posting some of my pictures from my recent trip to Italy.
I will start with the Venice pictures. We flew into Rome and then took the train to Venice. When we got there my Mom had written down all these directions on how to get to our hotel, but after about 10 minutes of wandering around, we finally gave into the fact that we were probably not going to be able to find our hotel on our own. Venice is full of streets with dead ends, bridges and winding streets, so we took a boat taxi to our hotel, which turned out to be really amazing since we got to see the city from the water.





This is a statue at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum. Peggy Gueggenheim lived here and donated her home so that it could be turned into a musuem when she died. She was the person who discovered Jackson Pollock.



These are pictures Mom and I took in the back of the museum, which overlooked the water.








Cool art at the museum.





The Yoko Ono wish tree that she gave Peggy Guggenheim. We made wishes.

Her and her dogs were buried in the court yard.






Our first meal: pizza, wine and salad. Followed by gelato of course!


Gondolas



San Marco Piazza We stayed right near here!

Italy Lessons

Pictures coming soon! In the meantime, here is something my mom found that I wanted to share. We agree with these lessons!

Lessons learned from Italy:

1. Take a break

2. Eat good food

3. Drink just enough

4. Slow down

5. Love the ones you’re with