In May this year I visited Florence in Italy with my college class. We stayed for three nights at a little hotel on a road straight along from the beautiful Duomo. On this trip we spent our time getting to know the place, as tourists do, wandering around, eating, drinking, taking pictures and enjoying every moment. I can safely say I fell in love with this city almost instantly.
Florence is a breathtakingly beautiful place with ancient stone buildings and fabulous architecture each way you turn. In the day times the weather was amazing and we enjoyed strolls by the river and gelato that tasted a million times better than I anticipated. At night time the little bars come alive quite late and we enjoyed several cocktails and ended up in a night club absolutely crammed with people. For a small city the night life was a great surprise and we had a lot of fun.
Many of the people who live in Florence are friendly, lovely people, and I wished I could have spoken more Italian than just 'ciao' and 'grazie'. I did try my best to pick up a few things though!
During our trip we visited Polimoda, the amazing fashion school in Florence and we had a presentation about what it's like to study there as well as a tour around the buildings. It's such a world apart from our little building in Newcastle and I couldn't believe the ornate interior of one of the buildings with painted ceilings and absolutely everything was golden, it was like a palace!
The shopping in Florence is amazing too with all of the designer shops like Celine, Tiffany's, Prada, Chanel, Mui Mui, I was in my element looking around at the beautiful clothes and shoes.
I can safely say this trip made me completely obsessed with Italy and it is now my mission to go back as soon and as often as possible!
Laura Olivia xx
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