Florence II

My room here in the hostel (ostello in Italian) has a computer, so I'll be able to make a quick post. Yesterday a whole bunch of us, who were all going to different places and intending to all leave at different times, ended up taking the same train up North. Most of them got off at Siena, and then a few more at Arezzo, leaving just the three of us: Amy, Nicole, and myself. When we first got here, it felt very touristy, but as the afternoon wore on and we moved to other parts of the city, it started to become more genuine. For the 19 euro price of our hostel, Archi Rossi, we got a dinner and breakfast included. The dinner was, while not extravagant, certainly enjoyable, and quite filling -- it was quite huge for the price. Of course, I got to enjoy this only after gettinig lost in Florence for a tad over an hour, but I got some excellent pictures as a consequence. Without my computer cable, I have no way to upload them, though, so you're just going to have to take my word on it for now. However, here are some other pictures I just found on this computer and thought you might like to see. Again, I didn't take these:

These are Santa Maria dell' Fiore, more commonly known as the Duomo (Italian for Dome), as it was the first dome constructed in Europe since the ancient Roman Empire.