View from train traveling from florence to time...beautiful countryside.

 Pictures from our walking food tour.

 Food 1 Katie 0

 No joke this guy makes over 2000 loaves of bread a day.

 At the castle for some wine...after a little delay.  We are transportation challenged on this trip.

 Stopped in a nice town in Tuscany on the wine trip. Lots of meat and wine, my type market.

Santa Croce church. 

So we might be a little cursed this trip... Our bus for the Tuscan wine tour broke down! We heard the words on fire. No one seemed concerned. We did make it but the trip was cut short.

This house was across the street from where we broke down. 

Plaza De Michelangelo. Amazing views! What a hike...worse than the Rockie stairs but worth it! 

breakfast

Amazing pastries and cappuccino.

The end of our quest.

Mount Doom.

Paragliding

Lord of the wings.

Cookies and wine

Meg's precious.

Wine spill

Dropped this glass of wine like a bad hobbit.

more from florence

 Some nice italian street music.

 Okay so we are a little like hobbits on this adventure...first there is breakfast...followed by second breakfast....followed by lunch, followed by afternoon snack, followed by dinner, followed by desert.

 Here Katie is getting caffeinated.

 Spaghetti and clam sauce from Italy...had to do it.

 Okay some back story here....there are tons of guys walking around trying to sell roses to tourists.  After the 5th one comes to the table during our romantic dinner....Katie almost bites his head off...think smog the Dragon from Lord of the rings....Okay done with the LOTR references....anyway this is a blurry picture of him leaving.....the next picture is if Katie giving him a death stare.

Yeah....you better not come back!

Florence is so beautiful! We got better pictures on the camera but these are from my tablet.

This last one is the view from our hotel window looking at the duomo

afternoon snack with meggy and john

 View from roof top restaurant.