Thursday, August 9, 2012

A "must-see" place-Firenze.

Florence (Firenze)  is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants. Florence is famous for its history. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.

When my Italian friends heard that I haven't visited Firenze they didn't loose any time-they booked the train tickets for the next morning and told me to pack my bags and be in the station in the early morning.

I went there with one Italian boy and a girl from Poland. Since it had been very hot for a very long time, it meant that there won't be any air in Firenze. It was super crowded, tourists everywhere! No air, no room, sweating like an animal...It was the perfect tourist-day! 

The city was a-ma-zing!!! The building, the little details on the sealing, doors, windows...incredible. Every streets was offering something to photograph. The Polish girl had made a list of the things that we have to visit, so the Italian boy just dragged us around the city. We saw all the places we wanted and so much more! We even took the bus to the hills to have a look on Firenze from the top, it was...well I really can't put it into words. Words are not enough here...

Have a look yourself:
























Oh Italy, why do you have to be so pretty? 

Maarja from Rimini

Would you like to see San Marino?

Although I spent most of my time in the hospital I still gave my best to visit some new places. How could I go back to Estonia without seeing any other places besides Rimini?

I visited the worlds oldest republic with 2 Greek friends. It was a good idea to visit San Marino, because it took only 40 minutes by bus to get there. Also I really wanted to see another country besides Italy (although technically it was still Italy, everything was the same, only difference was that you could hear more Russian language there than in Rimini).

I loved the old-fashioned houses and streets, but since it was a very small city we finished our journey quite quickly. Also the weather was unbearable.

PS: I had to visit San Marino once more when my Estonian friend came, so the second time (which was in July) we almost died in that heat!!!

Here you can see some of the pictures that we took:









Ci vediamo a dopo!

Maarja from Rimini

Let's visit Venice!

Ciao!

So you haven't heard from me for a looooong time because my laptop broke and I couldn't really use it even for blogging, but the good news is that I started keeping a diary about everything that I did in Italy.

I will show you some pictures of my trip to Venice. The trip took place on the 12th of June. The weather was perfect for a touristic day! It was not so hot like usually, there was a few clouds so we had some moments when we didn't even sweat so much!

The city itself is an absolute dream! It was like a place from a fairy tale, honestly. I went there with 3 of my girl friends, but since the city is so extremely romantic I would recommend to go there with "someone special."






















As you can see there was a lot of water =D Hahahaa! Anyways, I'm very happy that I got the chance to visit Venice, because it is a very famous and beautiful place. I will never forget this city with all the little bridges everywhere.

Maarja from Rimini