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Florence [Saturday Evening, October 19th]

The sunset was no less spectacular than yesterday's, but the air is a little bit warmer tonight. Perfect for strolling the streets in a light jacket to watch the buildings and fountains glow. You might want to slip that off when you hit the clubs, though; even autumn can really heat up when you dance!

[ Morning | Rooms | Hotel Restaurant | Hotel Bar | Fitness Centre | Sightseeing | Dining in Florence | Carousing | OOC ]

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The five-star Hotel Savoy offers luxury and style in the heart of Florence. Located on the Piazza Repubblica, close to Florence's renowned Duomo, the hotel is just a short walk from the Uffizi Gallery and the Ponte Vecchio. It's also just steps away from the main Florence fashion houses if you're all art-ed out. Which would be a shame because you can't get a block in Florence without seeing some naked guy in a fountain.

Everyone is staying in deluxe double or twin rooms that offer a view over the Piazza della Repubblica as well as of the Duomo. The Italian marble bathrooms, with mosaic decorations, also feature a separate shower, and the chaperones' rooms have a balcony to enjoy the view of the city more thoroughly. Each room comes with satellite television, phones, internet connections and a minibar.

[Here are your room assignments for this part of the trip; dirty stuff goes in your own crib, yo, not the comm.]

Eating at the hotel restaurant in one of the great food capitals of the world might seem like a cop-out, but with a menu like L'Icontro's, you can turn feeling lazy into a gourmet virtue.

Shaken, not stirred.

If you haven't figured out by now you have to walk pretty much everywhere in Italy, there's nothing we can do to help you on that front, but if you want to work out your arms and abs while getting an amazing view of the Duomo, the Savoy's got you covered. They also have a steam room, perfect from unkinking those muscles worn out from seeing all there is to see!

Wandering through the streets of Florence with the cathedrals and fountains illuminated (eating more gelato because c'mon, gelato) is one of the great things to do in the evening. Stop at street performers, listen to live music and enjoy the ancient beauty under the moonlight! Or get dressed up and go looking for street toughs to beat up. We know who's on this trip.

It's hard to go wrong with food in Florence. There are little corner shops that sell water and pizza, and gelaterias, it seems, are on all the other corners. The city’s best gelateria, or ice-cream parlor, is Vivoli! Remember that a cup, or tub (coppa), is better value than a cone (cono), and that you can ask for more than one flavor on your cone or in your cup! The hotel has recommendations for pricier options--Michelin starred restaurants, places that have been open since the 1800s -- but you can't really get a bad meal even if you go for one that comes price fixed with wine, pasta and dessert for 20 Euros.

Florence is much, much larger than any of the other cities we've visited, so the club scene is large and diverse.

Also, the DJs are 1000 times less likely to be the sort that Eric Northman would eat in lieu of employing them for more than a night.

Edited 2013-10-19 17:05 (UTC)

Up a wee bit early because I'm sneaking out to catch a matinee of Carrie. There is a reason October is my second favorite month.

Liara was not what one could call a being of great means-- in fact, doing this was likely a splurge she couldn't truly afford. But... if she and Karolina were to start dating again, she wanted to do so properly.

So the fifteen euro menu pasta restaurant...? Yes.

"This looks nice," she tried.

"Yeah, it does," Karolina said because, really, it was a date. She didn't care what the place was like. "I hope the vegetarian choices are good."

She'd had minor troubles with that over this trip.

"I am sure we will be able to find something," Liara said, stepping inside -- and self-consciously tugging the beanie further down her head.

It made her crest itch.

"And I've been getting pretty good at explaining what it means that I don't eat meat," Karolina shared, following her inside. Only babbling a little bit. "Sometimes the trick is to say I can't eat it. Although I'm not sure how that it's easier to accept than that I don't want to."

"Surely there is a word for vegetarian in the local language?" Liara asked, ducking her head so the waiter wouldn't look her too closely in the face.

"There is," Karolina admitted. (Fully prepared to glare at any waiter who looked at Liara wrong, but no one needed to know that unless it happened.) "But I don't think the practice is very well spread."

The waiter didn't seem to be saying anything, anyway, as he turned around and led them towards their seat. "Is it a cultural thing?" Liara wondered.

Karolina shrugged. Not that that was very helpful since she was behind Liara. But still. "I guess? I mean, the Italians seem to love a lot of things with meat in them. I guess when you have dozens of different kinds of sausages, being a vegetarian doesn't appeal."

Liara pulled back a seat snd slipped into it. She dropped her hands in her lap. "Are you feeling less vegetarian?"

"Can't say I am," Karolina replied with a little chuckle as she took her own seat. "But I grew up vegetarian."

Liara smiled. "So you wouldn't know what it is like to be an omnivore."

"Nope." She shook her head. "Honestly? I don't particularly want to know, either."

After spending more on a suit today than he knew was possible, Anakin and Rory had reservations at the best restaurant in town, at least according to the concierge. (And Anakin had tipped him well enough to ensure it was true.)

They were only in Florence once. What was a paycheck for dinner, right?

...Anakin was already regretting this.

"I would assume it is not much different from being a vegetarian," Liara said, hiding the rest of her smile behind the menu. "But with perhaps a few less questions."

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Florence [Saturday Evening, October 19th]

The Hotel - Hotel Savoy Firenze

The Hotel - Rooms - 10/19 Evening

The Hotel - Dining

L'Incontro

L'Incontro Bar

The Hotel - Fitness Centre

Adventures Away From The Hotel - Florence 10/19 Evening

Sightseeing

Dining (Away from the Hotel)

Carousing

OOC - Florence, 10/19, Night

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Enoteca Pinchiorri

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