Venice (Venezia) to Florence (Firenze)

We didn't buy train tickets far enough in advance so that delayed us a couple hours this morning. We missed our tour of the Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, or "Gallery of the Academy of Florence", which is an art museum and the home of Michelangelo's sculpture David. That's fine I guess, we enjoyed the extra time in Venice.

The machines to buy train tickets only take credit cards with chips and PIN numbers. We have chips in our cards, but not PIN numbers, so we waited an hour to buy tickets from an official ticket booth (from a guy). The ride down was just barely over 2 hours, and it was quite nice.

We walked straight to the hotel then dinner. We needed a little break from pizza and pasta, so we found some great steak and chicken. It was very fresh and authentic, add in some bruschetta and gelato and the meal was complete (ie. fantastic)

We walked over to the duomo, where I was quickly reminded that it's one my favorite anywhere- I love the painted colors and the feel of the area around the Duomo.

Walking back to the hotel there was a live band playing big band music. We enjoyed that. There were also dueling accordions at dinner, so the whole night was full of live music.