Florence

Our first morning at our hotel, Mia Cara, turned out to be a hit, especially with the kids.after having some great Italian breakfasts this one had the works. Sausages, scrambled eggs, fried rice, cates, poached eggs, cereal and all the Italian stuff that we had been having. But the kids loved the fact there were smarties.

We headed off to see Michelangelo's David. We lined up for about 90 minutes. The Accademia was how I remembered it, small. The kids did love David, but they couldn't care too much for the rest of it. Kylie thought the statue was good but wasn't sure it was worth the wait. 

We then went the wrong way on our walk up to Piazza Michelangelo, which was a good thing because it was going to be too long of a walk for the kids. We headed back to the hotel for some down time. After which we headed to a small nearby park. It had a small lake so the kids enjoyed running a few laps.

Today started with a big breaky again and then we caught a bus up to Piazza Michelangelo. There are some great views of Florence and we were pretty lucky it was reasonably quiet. We jumped on the bus again and went down to the Bomboli Gardens. These we quiet good and a lovely view from the Porcelain display Villa. Dan Brown goes into the History of the gardens a little in his book Inferno. We ended up in the Petit Palace, which is a pretty grand place. The locals had fun stirring Sebastian about the Juventus jersey he bought

We had dinner at a restaurant along our street and as it turned out the family next to us were from Melbourne. They live just around the corner from where Kylie used to live. On a whole Florence has been tough to enjoy with the kids as they aren't really into the artworks.

Stresa tomorrow, yay