De Medici Queen

I'm glad this thread is active again!

Umm I love winter actually more than summer but I know it's weird because everybody loves summer

paper rings

Where I live we get cylones (hurricanes) been in one in 2011. Anyway the weather people think that there's gonna be a cyclone on the coast of my state.. IN WINTER!

itsmemandy

I love winter more, summer is just too hot and it's horrible. Maybe autumn is better or spring !
hurricane sounds dangerous, I guess if they happen in winter it will be cold and dangerous lol

paper rings

It's no theart here, but it has formed.

De Medici Queen

A hurricane sounds scary I hope it won't happen though, and everything will be fine for you!

itsmemandy

same, I never experienced a hurricane, is it like dangerous or is there like safety stuff, like underground rooms or something in every house ?

paper rings

The only hurricane I remember was in February 2011, it was a cat 3 here and a cat 5 up north, there isn't a safety room, i remeber that my parents brought a table in my room, my brother and sister were in my room to sleep under the table while I slept under my desk the whole night.

De Medici Queen

It's been a long since we posted here..

I'll share some pics of my trip to Florence with you they're huge, so if you want to see the full size just click on the pic

Il Duomo - Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower; main attraction for tourists




they had some yummy food


Ponte Vecchio - Old Bridge over Arno River. Here you can find jewelry, a looot of jewelry. Very expensive but beautiful! There are like 85% of jewelers in. In the middle you can see it, and the last pic is the view from the bridge


Uffizi Gallery- there's a portrait of Catherine de Medici inside but I couldn't take a pic of it


This is the place Catherine spent her time as a hostage while in Florence It was a convent now it's a building with apartments


I found a shop called Caterina de Medici and there's a hotel and a street Via De Medici




I made a looot of pictures when I visited De Medici Palace and posted them on twitter so here are some links 1 2 3 4 5 https://twitter.com/issiiakarsu/stat...59643662524416

here some more I'm so in love with this city



and here's one of Pisa

kerbear28

Just...BEAUTIFUL. Now I'm really jealous, Issi. It's so cool that you got to see some of those important Catherine de Medici sites! Thanks for sharing the lovely pics!

paper rings

those are amazing

De Medici Queen

Yeah, it was great! I had a great time and you can imagine how excited I was everytime I saw something were Catherine was, lived or that's called after her or De Medici's

kerbear28

I can only imagine how much you loved getting to see anything having to do with Catherine's life. Awesome And I bet you got to eat some delicious Italian food, too. Gelato?

De Medici Queen

They have great pizza and gelato but the restaurants are so much different than here in Austria, it's funny how food tastes different in every country

kerbear28

I've only been to Europe (Italy) once, but yes, the food was very different. Delicious, though.

De Medici Queen

Where exactly have you been in Italy?