Dine like an Italian: The Best Places to Eat in Florence 2019
The best places to eat in Florence 2019 Italy is famous for its food. Full Stop. No doubt about it. It’s one of the things I love the most about living here; the never ending access to some of the freshest and best ingredients in the world a culinary tradition, that’s as rich as it […]
Best gelato in Florence: authentic ice cream off the beaten path
Best gelato in Florence: authentic ice cream off the beaten path The minute you enter Florence, whether it’s through the airport, the train station or on foot, you’ll see them everywhere: gelaterias. Shops where they sell ice cream in all shapes and sizes. All claiming to have the best and most authentic gelato in town. […]
Best day trips from Florence: explore Tuscany by train
Best day trips from Florence: explore Tuscany by train When traveling all the way to Italy, you probably don’t want to see just one city. Trains offer an excellent method of transportation to get around quickly and explore the beautiful towns and cities of Tuscany. Luckily, Florence’s main train station (Stazione Firenze Santa Maria Novella) […]
Springtime: The Best Time To Visit Florence
Springtime: The Best Time to Visit Florence Summer has arrived in Italy and whilst we’re enjoying our first hot days of this year, I’d like to tell you a bit more about the best time to visit Florence: Spring! Why go in spring? Spring in Florence is usually mild. Temperatures start rising late March and […]
Street scenes
It’s a beautiful spring day in Florence. Windows wide open, sitting in the sun, coffee within reach. I’m working. Until I hear a sound. A trumpet? It sounds like a trumpet. I think to myself ‘someone must have picked up on a new hobby’ and continue with what I was doing. But the sound is […]
Exciting new steps!
It’s the 16th of February 2019 and today it has been one year, three months and a couple of days since I arrived in Florence. I eat, sleep, breathe Florence and I can sincerely say it is the biggest, most consuming and most fulfilling love I have ever felt. I am Florence. Florence is me. […]
One Year
It’s hard to believe I’m actually writing this post. This Sunday, November 4th, I’m celebrating my one year anniversary in Florence. Needless to say the year has flown by. Here I am. Cuddled up on the couch with my cat, in my Florentine home. I hear the noises from the street. People chatting in Italian. […]
Peaks and valleys
Whoever makes it seem like moving abroad and starting a new life is just one long chain of happy moments, lives in Disneyland. I have news for you: it is not. It removes the fundaments on which you have been living your life for years, it shakes your entire existence. It makes you doubt every […]
Back on track!
A little over a week into 2018 and I’m kind of back on my feet after feeling really lost for some time. Here we go again, ready to rumble! The daily structure of language classes has started again. It’s just two of us in our language class right now, which leaves my classmate and me […]
Not-a-home-sick
For a few days I’ve been back in Florence now. Discovered that my Italian actually improved (or at least it feels like that) by not speaking it for a week, grabbed some decent Italian food, already went for coffee to my favourite place a couple of times, met with some friends and getting ready to […]