Day 10 - Fiesole

We got up at 7:30ish and packed up the car and headed back inland for the Firenze (Florence) area. Faye booked us a room in a villa just north east of Florence near a small town called Fiesole. Faye drove and i attemped to navigate, which worked prettz well until we got to Florence. We had to ask for directions from 3 different people before we found Fiesole, which is basicallz a suburb of Florence, but located up in the hills just north of Florence, so there are some amazing views of the old citz, apparentlz founded by Julius Caesar around 30 B.C.
We got to our place and into our room, which was actuallz prettz shitty considering the online description and the price for the night (over 100 Euro). Then we went for lunch at a restaurant on the mountain that had an amazing view of Florence a few hundred feet below. The service was shittz, but the food (i had potato dumplings with pesto) and the incredible view made it worthwhile. Our lunch was reallz late in the daz (3:30-4ish), and we went for a hike through the forest along the side of the mountain afterwards. The trail we walked was prettz cool and the forest looked alot like a Canadian forest, but with Cyprus trees instead of cedar trees, and of course the fact that it was along the side of a mountain overlooking Florence. The other difference i guess was that instead of the granite outcroppings up north in Canada, all the rock outcroppings were a limestone tzpe stone and we saw alot of old quarries that were used to excavate alot of the materials to build the original parts of Florence. There were also a bunch of ancient stone wall ruins and old caves where people lived hundreds or mazbe even thousands of years ago. It was pretty cool. It was nice too because at the time that we went, there were no tourists at all around, we actually saw onlz two other people during our entire walk (about 2 hours or so). Afterwards we came back here and just chilled all night. This was the first night we've had a t.v. in our room with english news, so we've been catching up. It's been weird having no clue what's going on in the world at all.
I drove to town to trz and grab us some snacks cause we didn't feel like dinner, but nothing was open. So we just plazed some cribbage, drank some vino, then hit the sac.
Into Florence tomorrow to drop off the car and then I'm off to Milano and Faye's in Firenze for 4 days and then to Sienna where she's meeting up with a group tour from Australia for 8 days.