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Published: September 17th 2008
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Florence
Started off the morning driving to Florence. It was about a 4 hour drive from Rome. Met up at Santa Croce Church for our group photo which I think is a bit of a rip off so i didn't order one. As soon as we finished, this fucking gypsy came up and asked us for money. Literally. Photo taken, then she walks up and asks for money. I felt like saying "Got curtousy bitch?" Grr.
After that it was off to Leonardos leather works which was a waste of time and the smell of leather made me feel like vomiting. The guy who told us about leather kept on going on about Gypsy's and people who were selling counterfeit products. There's heaps of these "bastards" as he described them all through Florence. Every street you go down there's stalls selling bags and other fake leather products.
He told us to mess with them if they try to prove that it's genuine leather by doing the fire test (moving a lighter up and down the product). Instead of moving the lighter, he told us to get them to hold it in the same spot for 5 seconds. "Leather is
not fire proof. Have you ever seen a fire proof cow?"
After that, Mat, Paul, Jen, Kara and I went to check out the statue of David. It was 10 Euro ($20) to get in which is totally bullshit just to see a statue, but yeah (it is probably the most famous statue ever). David was certainly impressive, heaps larger then I thought, but his winky was pretty tiny. Kinda like Tim. hahaha na, but seriously, if i was him I wouldn't have got sculpted on a cold day and told the person to make it way bigger (maybe they already did?). I bet after it got erected....hahahahah... he didn't get any chicks.
It'd be like "Hey David, wow you got a statue, that's impressive, shame about the manhood though, probably wouldn't even scrape the walls."
After that we did a bit of exploring. Went and saw Duomo Cathedral and the Poute Vecchio (an old bridge) then we headed to our camp ground.
We set up the rep this time by getting two guys coming out of the toilet (on the bus) in only there boxers and then one of them hand cuffed himself to her. Wasn't
that good, but he put her off hard out!
The campsite itself was gourmet as! Good room, good shower, seats in the lounge and a fridge that had an un-opened beer in it! I got a deck chair and just chilled out on the deck of the chalet with a beer in my hand. It was real relaxing being in the shade with a beer in 36 degree weather!
Went ot a Tuscan dinner with the group that night which was really good. There was only one dish they bought out that was solely for vegetarians, but it was burnt to shit. Ah well, 5 courses of good food and only a small portion of those that sucked, wasn't too bad.
We then went to a pub where Rick bought a 3.5L tower full of beer for 20 Euro ($40) mean.
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well remember dear geoff, back then they fucked to make babies more than they did for pleasure. evolution does remarkable things :D