My trip to Italy

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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.