Florence (Firenze) & Pisa trip. Part II

If you're in Italy (I'm not sure about other country tho), and you have time.

You can buy a ticket for shuttle bus, it will bring u around the city main points.

Actually, every city of Italy has this kind of service as well.

You pay an amount of money, you can take the bus to points.

In fact there are a lot of company doing this service..

Such as 'Open tour', 'Citysightseeing' and etc.

The bus will stops by each stop for around 5 minutes.

What if you want to stay at the place longer?

Easy, they have a lot of buses take turns to round. You can just get down from your current bus, and enjoy your place and take the next bus at specific time.

So, continue from previous post. I jumped on the shuttle bus tour.

It was called 'Open tour' bus, i paid the ticket for Euro22 with 48 hours valid time. Yes, 48 hours. Means you can continue taking the bus on the next day if you want to.

You can find a bus stop like this and purchase the ticket from the seller there.

Usually they will wear the uniform, if you can't find the ticket seller, you can just wait for the bus to arrive at this point and purchase with the seller inside the bus.

With the Euro22, you get:

1) A 'Open tour smart guide' booklet with the maps inside, and introduction of each points that you're visiting.

2) A pair of earphone, to let you listen to the electronic tour guide on the bus to introduce all the places' histories while visiting.

*Reminder*

Keep your receipt well, coz you can get 20% discount on the next city ticket purchased.

If you're choosing the seats up on the bus, which is open-air. It's better to prepare some cap or jackets especially you're traveling during winter time. The cold air while driving is gonna blow your head and you might caught cold.

Out of the points that i'd visited with 'Open tour' bus. This is the point that i dropped off from the bus and take some nice pics. It's the Piazale Michelangelo. A big square where you can actually look at the beautiful view of Firenze city. It's very romantic, believe me!

The environment is filled with romantic feeling, it's the best you come Italy with your love one.

A picture of myself, taken by Hadi. With the view of Firenze as background.

I like to see how western ppl shows their love to the partner.

They don't need to care how people might see, they don't care how awkward to kiss each other at there. Unlike we Malaysian might feel shy by doing that.


There's a statue of Michelangelo's David at the square.

This is an replica copy of david tho, the real one is now under protected in Museum.

Who is David? <- Click here if you dont know who is David

He's a masterpiece of Renaissance Sculpture created at 500 years ago, by Michelangelo.

And it's moved to Academia Gallery at 1873.

So, around half and hour at Piazzale Michelangelo i took another bus to continue our journey around Firenze. This is a photo when we were stopped by at Ferrucci.

This is the famous museum in the western world, the Uffizi Gallery.

What is Uffizi Gallery?

I was there during evening, the museum was closed.

According to others, the Uffizi Gallery is always full with people. If you're intended to go into the museum, you're recommend to come early and queue up. That's why i skipped Uffizi Museum and rather have a walk to Firenze City.

It is also one of the oldest museum in western world.

Is was begun to build at 1560 and it's stand still until now.

A big Wow! to Europe, everywhere is thousand year old building.

In Malaysia, i think 500 years is very well enough to celebrate already! haha!

And at the night, i had some ice cream from the Jelato nearby my hostel and went off to bed. Continue our journey the next day to Pisa!