Florence – Wanderlust Wonderland

Florence Guide for the Ordinary Traveler

3 September 20206 October 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, Florence, Italy, Travel Guide for ordinary travelersTagged City trip Florence, Firenze, Florence, Florence bucketlist, Florence city guide, Florence guide, Florence highlights, Guide to Florence, travel guide, Travel Guide for ordinary travelersLeave a comment

Wanderlust Wonderland brings you: a travel guide for ordinary travelers, with must-sees, tips and tricks and the most delicious food, for ordinary travelers, like you and me.

I fell in love with Florence the first second I layed eyes on the city. There’s just something magical about it. The gorgeous architecture, the amazing food, the gardens and museums that you just don’t want to leave… Time for some recommendations of the city, time for a guide to Florence!

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Pitti Palace or Pity Palace?

27 August 20206 October 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, Florence, ItalyTagged Firenze, Florence, museums in Florence, Palazzo Pitti, Pitti PalaceLeave a comment

Our last day in Florence was a short one. We had to leave the city and take a train to Pisa, for our flight departed from there. But, as we hadn’t really done much on the day before and we wanted to visit at least one other museum, we decided to spend the morning in Florence before getting on a train.

There were two museums we wanted to visit. I really wanted to go to Galleria dell academia but boyfriend had read some things about Pitti Palace so instead, we decided to go there. Unfortunately, it was kind of a bummer.

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Save the Medici!

25 August 20206 October 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, Florence, ItalyTagged Firenze, Florence, Hardrock cafe, Medici, nachos, nachos in Florence, quest, The Medici Conspiracy Quest, walking tour Florence1 Comment

We didn’t have a lot of time to plan our trips, so we only wrote down a few things we wanted to do in each city. By our third day, we had already done all the things we wanted to in Florence: We had eaten gelato, pasta and pizza, we had marveled at the Duomo, visited the Uffizi gallery, petted Il Porcelino and seen the view from the Piazzale Michelangelo. For our remaining days, we just wanted to wing it, see what we encountered and decide on the spot what we wanted to do. We decided to save the medici family…

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Time for art: The Uffizi Gallery

20 August 20206 October 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, Florence, ItalyTagged best pizza in Florence, Firenze, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, museums in Florence, Osteria dei Centopoveri, Uffizi2 Comments

We had started our second day in Florence with a sunny walk towards the Piazzale Michelangelo. It had been a lovely morning already and the day would even get better with our plans for the afternoon: a visit to the Galleria degli Uffizi!

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A Sunny walk towards Piazzale Michelangelo

18 August 20206 October 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, Florence, ItalyTagged Citytrip, David, Firenze, Florence, Italy, La Loggia del Piazzale Michelangelo, Tuscany, walking through Florence3 Comments

Our first day in Florence had been lovely. We had seen the Duomo, the Ponte Vecchio and Il Porcelino. For our second day, we had bought afternoon tickets for the Uffizi, for it would be too hot in the city to be outside. For the morning, we decided to cross the Arno and walk towards Piazzale Michelangelo.

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More love for Florence: Duomo, Ponte Vecchio & Piazza Vecchio

13 August 20206 October 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, Florence, ItalyTagged Cattedrale Di Santa Maria del Fiore, Duomo, Firenze, Florence, Loggia dei Lanzi, Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria, Piazza Vecchio, Ponte Vecchio, Ristorante Lorenze de Medici, Santa Maria NovellaLeave a comment

In my last post I told you about our first meeting with Florence. How I already fell in love with the city, its architecture and its food. The thing is, I hadn’t even seen the best parts of the city yet, which I want to talk to you about today: The Duomo, Piazza Vecchio and our first David.

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Falling in Love with Florence

11 August 202025 August 2020Posted in Citytrip, Europe, Florence, ItalyTagged Arno, Florence, Italy, Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, Loggia del Porcelino, Oggi Pizza Restaurant, Pizza, Porcelino4 Comments

Florence hasn’t even been on my bucketlist for too long. The city came to me in a dream and somehow I felt I needed to go there as soon as I could. So when we planned a trip for the summer and decided we wanted to go to Rome, we obviously had to go to Florence as well.

And wow. The city is probably the prettiest I’ve ever been to. I dare say it’s prettier than Paris or Rome. Whereas Rome breathed ancient history, Florence felt young and vibrant with it’s colorful houses, lovely food, expensive stores and the most gorgeous architecture I have ever seen.

Top 3 places I wanna go when quarantine is over

2 June 202014 August 2020Posted in Bucketlist, PersonalTagged after quarantie, Bucketlist, covid-19, dreaming about cities, Dreams, Florence, follow your dreams, Iceland, places I want to visit after quarantine, travel8 Comments

Hey! How is everyone doing? Things are starting to turn back to normal, though they are calling it ‘the new normal‘ in my country. We’re going to have to keep working from home and keep a meter and a half distance between ourselves. The phrase ‘the new normal’ is a way of saying: just get used to it.

But things are looking up. Schools and libraries are open, as well as dentists and hairdressers. This week museums and restaurants will open up as well and every few weeks we’ll get some new liberties. Traveling outside of your own country, however, is still on hold, though I have heard some desperate cries from countries that offer to pay you back a part of your travel costs if you’re visiting this year, so they can get income from tourism. Maybe there’s hope after all.

So maybe it’s time to start dreaming again. Here’s my top three places I want to visit when I’m allowed again!

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