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Day 1

8/2/2012

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Good morning.  Sorry about the delay for the hostel was having trouble with thier wifi, but I think everything is working fine now. Yeserday we had a long layover in Frankfurt then took a flight to Florence.  I have never to so many huge planes in one place as Frankfurt airport.  There was a single hanger holding 2 A380s!  I sat next to a very nice man on the flight to Florence that lived in Florence but came from the US.  He told me how much he liked it and pointed out sights as we landed.  Once we landed, we waited a bit for out bags then took a bus to the train station in Florence.  From there, it was was a 15 minute walk to the hostel, which is only steps way from the duomo.  After a short time of relaxing, we took a walk around the city.  We visited the duomo, the main city square, and also a high point where we could overlook the city.  The buildings here are all small it it remindes me a lot of Paris.  We then climbed back down and sat on some church steps to discuss rules, etc.  Finally, we had dinner then went back to the hotel.  These are some of the pictures I took yesterday.  I 
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Bill
8/2/2012 08:33:52 am

Great that you saw some A380s. Also, awesome pictures from the high spot overlooking the city.

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