italy and greece.....

alright, i left you off when we went to bed after arriving in florence. the next day we woke up, grabbed some croissants for breakfast, and wandered towards the center of town, we passed the galleria dell'accadamia, where michaelangelo's david is, but the line was crazy and it was expensive so we decided to go to the galleria degli uffizi instead because we heard that it was bigger and better.... so we wandered through town, went to the santa maria novella church, which was beautiful, and then we wandered by the uffizi, saw that the line was out of control and decided to go the next morning when it opened. we wandered to the piazza michelangelo and up into the mountains, it was absolutely beautiful, exactly as i had pictured italy to be, that night we got fresh pasta and made it at our hostel yum... the next morning we got up early and went to the uffizi gallery, we ran into some girls from vancouver that i had met in nice, so we decided to meet for dinner that night. after seeing a lot of madona and child paintings at the uffizi, i mean a lotttt of madona and child paintings, as well as the birth of venus, we went to get gelato and take the train to pisa. pisa was nice... we took some good and tourist-y pictures with the leaning tower, that night we met my friends for dinner and had a good evening with them. the next morning we took the train to rome... after checking in at our hostel we made our way to the spainsh steps, the trevi fountain and the colosseum. the next day we went to the vatican museum (which was free! because it was the last sunday of the month!) and then headed over to st. peter's basilica to go to mass, and after seeing an incorruptable we went outside and guess what?!?! the pope was speaking!! so that was super exciting... then we had a nice italian dinner at a restaurant called that's amore and headed to bed.
the next morning i took the early train to brindisi and then the night ferry to corfu, greece, which is where i am now, i've had a few relaxing days on the beach, i went kayaking, snorkling, and cliff jumping and now i'm ready to head north... i've got a long 2 days of travelling ahead of me... i'm taking the night ferry to brindisi tonight and then the day train to bologna and then the night train to munich... wish me luck!

much loveeee