Ciao London, Ciao Italia!

It still blows my mind that I am technically done with my [study] abroad experience! Since we were done soooooo early, I am now travelling Central Europe for nearly two weeks. First stop, Italy with another Delta Gamma from my program in London, Whitney.

We started our travels very early with a flight out from all the way at Stanstead Airport (the furthest of all the main London Airports) after Whitney nearly missing the bus and an interesting combination of other things, we finally arrived at Pisa Airport. Since we were in Pisa, we obviously had to go to the Leaning Tower of Pisa to get your typical photo shoot with the crooked building, bringing my large amounts of luggage and all. We then went back to the airport to take the bus to Firenze!

As you can probably expect, Italy is carbs carbs carbs carbs carbs! Pasta, Pizza, Panini, nom noms! So good. And you cannot forget about Gelato as well. We even got to eat at O'Vesuvio, the pizza place where the cast of Jersey Shore worked in Florence. Even though I would not think that Snooki would be worthy of a good pizza, it was quite tasty :)

Jersey Shore Wall at O'Vesuvio

Nomnomnomnoms

Like every trip we also did your typical touristy sights. We lucked out because the day we arrived in Florence was the beginning of culture week aka free admission to the museums! That being said, we were able to see Michelangelo's David for free and also go into the Uffizi for free. Quite a number of Euros I saved there. We also went into the Duomo as well, which was already free in the first place! I was appreciating that most of the things I did other than eat were free, especially with the rest of my travels coming up. However, when you have the San Lorenzo Market with so much cheap leather, all of that money that would have been spent elsewhere, was spent there. There were so many other things as well such carnival masks, pasta, glassware, and whatever else you can think that maybe Italian, it was probably there.

Whitney and I stuck in the rain outside the Duomo

The view of Ponte Vecchio from a window of the Uffizi.

I definitely wish I had more time to travel to other parts of Italy because it is so gorgeous and there are absolutely so many places to see! Florence and Pisa were definitely a great start, but I would love to go to Rome and Venice in the future. A Mediterranean beach wouldn't be bad either :) So since I am doing so much traveling so fast, these will be relatively short and sweet :) Next stop, Budapest!