Italia Memorial Weekend: Venezia & Firenze

We took a long weekend over Memorial Day weekend to travel to Italy. I love how quick trips to mainland Europe are from England. It was chaotic and stressful (we almost missed our flight and parking in Florence is a nightmare), but after the initial craziness of day one, we had a really lovely weekend. Strolling through the city of bridges and canals while delighting in looking through every single Venetian mask shop I could I find will always be Venice. Florence, the birthplace of the renaissance, was full of beautiful architecture and renaissance art. We went to the Uffizi and saw Botticelli's Birth of Venus, pieces of work by Michaelangelo, Dante, and many others. It was beautiful. I sipped on limoncello and indulged in a lot of pizza and gelato. Italy was dreamy.