We met up with our dear friend Vanina, who is from Naples, in Florence. She brought along her amazing friend she met while studying in Paris, Viviane, who is Brazilian. Together we made quite a quartet, moving between languages like water: speaking Italian, Spanish, French and English (Portuguese only came in for a quick cameo).
We had some serious adventures and a handful of miracles to get us
to where we were headed. We started out in Florence and spent just a few hours into the evening there, wandering through the streets, gazing up at the majestic cathedral (unlike any other I’ve seen in Italy), and feasting on bisteca a la Florentina, an enormous piece of organic cow from the local pastures, which of course is the norm in Italy (factory farming isn’t really a thing).
Here are some images of us in Florence, which I’ll follow with other adventures.