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Well hello everyone! We are writing this from a dodgy Italian internet cafe in the centre of Florence! It has all seemed a bit hectic for our summer holiday so far! We met at Stansted airport and couldnt have timed it more perfectly as Karens Dad pulled up outside the terminal as Rachel was stepping off the Stansted express! We checked in our rather large and stuffed full backpacks and headed straight for Wetherspoons!! A bottle of wine later we stepped onto our private jet aka Ryanair! and an hour and a half later we were in Milano! We boarded a bus to the central station and arrived as night was falling. We jumped on the metro and 10 stops later we were outside the beautiful wonder of Milan that was a network of underpasses adorned in Italian artwork or graffiti as it is known in England! We checked into the hotel and asked where we should go for a light bite to eat. We were directed in the direction of the local bowling alley and as we stepped inside we were greeted with a bowling alley cafe selling slices of pizza!!! Luckily we stood out like a sore thumb and someone pointed us in the direction of the restaurant upstairs! As we sat down and ordered from the Italian menu, we noticed the name of the restaurant "Da Willy!" not very Italian! A "light snack" later, we crashed out at the hotel and set our alarms for early the next morning! A breakfast at the hotel in the morning and we were back on the metro to the centre. We explored the streets and Duomo which was quite impressive and we spent a couple of hours and a LOT of photo opportunities on the roof of the 3rd largest cathedral in the world, looking over the city and to the Alps. We left Milan mid afternoon and have recently arrived at our hotel in Florence so just writing this before going out for more Italian nosh!! Thats about it for now, sorry for the lack of punctuation...italian keyboard!! Ciao for now, R and Kxx
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