Today we moved on from Rome and headed to Florence.
Once again, we packed our bags and headed for the train station. This time, we caught the bus from just up the road from our apartment.
While it felt like we could have walked in the same time, at least we were off our feet—which was a good thing after the past few days.
We arrived at Roma Termini well ahead of when we needed to catch our train. Roma Termini has a fantastic food hall—Mercato Centrale. The place was clean and had heaps of very nice-looking food and drink options. It was actually surprisingly good and unlike what we remembered Roma Termini to be from our last visit.
We grabbed a table and ordered coffees and some food for the kids.
We also grabbed some food for lunch—a few salad boxes and some paninis—all looked amazing.
We caught our train, and a quick two hours later we were in Florence.
We walked from the station up to our apartment, which is steps away from the Ponte Vecchio.
From the fourth floor, we can look down to the street below and the bridge and just watch the world pass by. It’s a really magnificent spot.
We headed out to do a bit of grocery shopping, as we had decided to eat in tonight and use up some extra food we had carried with us.
While looking for decent grocery stores, we explored the local area and managed to find a quirky gelato store for the kids—it had a Parmigiano Reggiano flavour (about as bad as you could imagine 😬).
Their other, less experimental, flavours were great and the kids loved them.
We headed back to the apartment and cooked up dinner.
After dinner, we headed back out in search of the elusive wine windows of Florence.
Our first stop was a false start. It was a wine window, but it wasn’t operating.
We pushed on to the next—one we had actually passed on our walk from the train station.
We knocked on the window and ordered a few drinks. Five minutes later, we were on our way.
We continued to wander and explore, and eventually headed back home for bed.
