So now we're in florence. I don't want to say the people are generally rude here but our experience was with many rude florentians. It seemed like a very local city with certain areas devoted to tourism.
We stayed in a camping village by the same company as rome's, but of a much lesser quality. No power hookups in the tents made the common area a lord of the flies scenario where backpackers swarmed over available power sockets. Was actually kind of funny but rrally annoying as well. The bugs really got us here. Mosquito's are in force and ants are riding on their backs to parachute down on their prey. Off spray has now become a necessity as I am a mosquito magnet. Temperatures get down in the 50s at night and we love that. Very very nice.
There's not too much to see in the city besides the duomo(church that dominates the city visually and audibly with its hourly bells), the river, piazza de Michaelangelo, the statue of David(if you care enough to pay 35euro for it(we didn't)) and some old castle ruins.
Pinocchios are also very popular in Italy.
We just so happened to be there during the festival of St. John, so there was a massive parade in the city, and our campsite was 2 minutes walk from the piazza de Michaelangelo which was the base of the fireworks show for the festival.
The fireworks were the best I have ever seen in my life, hands down. Lasting 30 minutes not only did we have a frontrow view about 100 yards from their site of launch, but we were actually close enough to get hit by shrapnel and to see a girl right next to us get burned by falling flaming pieces of spent fireworks.
Food: was okay, we had to eat at the campsite most of the time as the cities' restaurants were closing at 2-3pm evey day during 'holy week'. We had lots of pizza and once had some pretty damn good, cheap Chinese food.
Animal of note:
Name: barretta - named after the brand of meat we have her. campground cat that came to our tent so we gave her food, and then after we stopped she went to the next tent and they gave her food. She lives a pretty good life. On our last day we were walking down the trail outside the campgrounds and she actually appeared there and we said our goodbyes :(
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