Florence

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Florence...

We basically just did the tourist thing here....visiting the churches and galleries and eating overpriced (but delicious) food.

If you book a cheap hotel room in Florence, don't believe the 'breakfast included' part. Ours was a coffee straight from a machine, a drinking box of orange juice and a twinkie. Fine Italian cuisine....

The best part of Florence was borrowing the hotel's bikes and riding through town. Narrow cobblestone streets and italian drivers take on a whole new meaning when you're part of the traffic pattern.

...and the pizza in Italy really is spectacular

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Photos

A little Italian in all of us
Jen embraces la dolce vita as we look over Florence

These are the Daves I know
Jen had to agree with the critics - he's got a world class bum

Rape of the Sabines
The sabine girls didn't like being being hauled off to become Roman wives....

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream - or in this case the Arno river

The Duomo
A pretty awesome church...and that says a lot, as we're almost churched out at this point on the trip

Sunset over Florence
Enjoying the view from the dome of the Duomo, watching the sun set over the mountains