FLORENCE. 5th to 7th.

i didnt wanna leave venice!! good thing we booked our accomdations in florence plus booked train tix. cos pple kept getting chased out when they have no reservations.

train ride was pretty good, with a pretty conductor! rest of florence pretty modern/industralised. nice hills. loved it.
train ride was pretty comfy amazingly. florence pretty diff frm venice..quite well developed. first thing was find our way to hostel. gotlost. hahaha as usual. great duomo.but not v impressive.maybe cos venice was too nice. italians are v friendly pple, so was our hostel! col and i both love it...LOVE IT.
great pple, great food! we had pasta and salad for dinner...they cooked it themselves!!

lots of asians around in florence though.
met fabio, a brazilian enginner..he's dam funny lah!! but dammm nice...so is blur brian from US..always sleepy..like colin..haha..and jared from canada ontario, who's spent a record 12 nights there..cos he loved int so much..i think he's a doctor though..rather punkish one..basket..haha..by the way havaianas in brazil only cost 3euros..thats like 6 bucks..i asked him to ship a crate in for me..anybody interested?

i guess where ure staying really makes a difference. highlight: hostel raided!!! license expired!!! THE WHOLE HOSTEL EVACUATED IN ULTRA QUICK TIME!! even the beds were moved..how cool is that!!! luckily i packed all my stuff..so didnt lose anything..colin almost lost its $140 mask from eyes wide shut.

visisted PISA. the tower REALLY LEANS.amazing to just see it man. and visited the DUOMO too..4th largest cathedral in the world..quite impressive..alot of michelangeloàs works.
headed down to PIAZZALE MICHELANGELO..zy read: MUST GO. don't ask why..just go there and u'll understand.
was so overwhelmed man. i didnt go to the pubcrawl this time, though last night i made alot alot of friends..mostly americans..describing cinque teres to me..5 little towns..ONLY americans noe about it..

so it was a quiet nite back at firenze inn...where we met boss lorenzo..and the next day, we just packed and left for the ACCADEMIA...where michelangeloàs most famous work, DAVID was housed.
my god, its really a splendid structure. so BIG in real life. have been wanting to see it all along..he's so good, u can see every detail..i wonder if he studied anatomy..cos the surface marks of the EJV, long saphenous vein, basilic veins, serratus anterior were SOO ZUN. its really worth the 8 euros to go in an just see man.

missed the uffizi. fuck.

ZY, READ: queue early for the uffizi and accademia, maybe around 8 plus am to 9 am. bloody long queue and DONàT BRING ANY BAGS. i had to wait outside with our stuff till colin was done seeing.

so we headed off to rome onboard eurostar italia, which is superb. dam fast, dam quiet. but fucking noisy americans on the train all around us..sleep oso cannot..and make fucking stupid comments summore...and most of them are just OBESE. when they got up, just blocked the whole damned aisle. but at least they're not racist..or they just dont show it.