Florence! Hi, Florence. The city was, as you can see above, beautiful as expected. A lot of history there. A lot of American tourists there, too. I actually heard more American accents than Italian, it was bizarre. But I suppose that's because we went at the beginning of tourist season, and we did very touristy things. We saw the David (wow), the Florence Cathedral, some Botticelli and some Michelangelo, and stayed the hotel-ridden part of town. And I was secretly comforted by all the Americans because I was a tad homesick.
The gelato gods totally smiled upon us in Florence. AKA we caught the gelato festival while it was still in town. For ten euro, we got five BIG individual scoops of gourmet gelato, a bag, a balloon, and free admission to gelato cooking shows. And we somehow convinced many festival employees to give us tastes of, like, every gelato before we decided, so we definitely got our money's worth. Some flavors were weird yet yummy (i.e. algae, orange and chocolate gelato, and marzipan gelato), others were just weird, and some were just incredible. We had a Guatemalan coffee gelato that was killer. Still thinking about that.
And of course, we had gelato outside of the festival too. Can I please go on a tangent about the deliciousness of rice gelato for a minute? It tasted like rice pudding. I don't know why no one in the states has thought to make rice pudding ice cream. It's now my favorite flavor and I'm just gonna have to make it myself, I guess. (Good thing mom just bought an ice cream maker!)
Enough about gelato. Photos:
^I lied. This blog post is all about gelato and you readers are just going to have to come to terms with that.
^Me and gelato at the gelato festival.
^Me and my beloved rice gelato.
^Some gelato cones.
Yeah, okay, I took pictures of the city too:
^Houses on the river.
^View from Piazzala Michelangelo.
^Enjoying a bottle of wine at sunset with the ladies up at the Piazzala.
^View from our hostel (!).
^Marika and me. Love this girl.
^Prosciutto crudo panino at La Prosciutteria; I highly recommend going there.
^It was an hour-long wait to see the David, but we kept ourselves occupied with the street vendor stands...
^Simple mushrooms on fried polenta. Best meal I had in Italy.
♡ Maddie
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