I really loved Florence after having visited Rome and Venice only over the last few years (and you all know how fun my last trip to Rome was!). I just found the locals so much more hopsitable to tourists. In Venice even if you try to speak Italian, even if you frequent the same spots over and over over the span of several weeks (ahem!) they treat you like a born yesterdayer. In Florence people were SO nice, they would always indulge my poor Italian and a couple of them actually even thought I WAS Italian--well, at least until after the point I said "buongiorno--then reality set in :) Seriously I went into some trendy boutique in the Oltrarno (other side of the Arno river) just to pretend I was chic and in line with my
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