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Hi I'm Elie and today I'm
going to talk about my end-of-year school trip to Italy. My class and
I visited Sirmione, Verona, Venice, Florence, Lucca and Pisa.
We woke up really early
on Monday to be at school at 5:15 am, to take the bus that brought us
to the Barcelona airport. Our flight was very short so we were in
Milan by 10:30. As soon as we arrived, we took another bus to
Sirmione. We shot some pretty cute pictures there by the lake and
then had our first Italian pizza for lunch! Everyone was very nice
from the beginning. We spent the rest of the day in Verona, Romeo and
Juliet's city. The Arena was huge and the city in general was
charming. At night we just fooled around and went to sleep.
The following day we had
breakfast and ran to the train station. It was Venice day: my
favourite day. We visited the famous square of San Marcos and saw
stunning buildings. We also went on a gondola ride and honestly, it
was lovely. My expectations weren't that high. In the afternoon we
returned by train to Verona and spent our last night there.
Next morning was
calorie-burning! So we were in the Verona's train station with all
our suitcases and everything and some of us were just way too excited
to go to Florence that were running around? I don't know, we just got
lost and instead of stressing out we had a lot of fun searching for
the other part of the group. We luckily found the way back to were we
had taken the wrong way and found the train. We spent two entire days
in Florence. Our hotel was super well placed and we also had a lot of
free time there. We ate gelatto and went shopping and had time to
really enjoy ourselves. In Florence we visited the Ufizzi Gallery,
the Academy, the majestic Sta Maria di Fiore and saw el Ponte
Vecchio, la Loggia dels Lanzi and lots of other cool stuff. We had a
blast there.
On the last day we
visited Lucca and Pisa, but on the way we stopped at a viewpoint with
really good views of Florence. Lucca was pretty much my idea of what
Tuscany looks like. It was a very sunny day and we just decided to
sit in a bar and have some drinks and talk. We went for a walk to see
the town and then headed to Pisa. We visited the cathedral, the
baptistry and the famous tower. Up there we met very nice Japanese
people. It was lots of fun. And as the day was ending it was time to
say see you to Italy... But! Our trip hadn't ended yet. Our flight
was delayed and so we spent about two or three hours waiting in the
airport. But it wasn't boring at all! We met people from Llagostera
and even realized we had known some of them when we were kids! As we
waited we sang and talked and laughed. And, although no one was ready
to say goodbye to Italy, we got on the plane and returned home.
