Diana Elle Blog

A year ago we were spending  8 days visiting 4 cities in Italy , out of which, exactly a year ago today I was celebrating my dad's birthday eating a burger at a restaurant in Florence. A little over a month ago we were there for the second time. We didn't go to that restaurant though, because the special from last year was no longer available. We got to see many of the same sites we had previously seen but the first time we went we didn't know it was possible to go up the dome. This time our main focus was just that, we bought tickets that included access to all the monuments in the Complex of Santa Maria del Fiore: Brunelleschi's Dome, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Baptistry of San Giovanni, the Crypt of Santa Reparata inside Florence Cathedral, and the Opera Museum and we began our visit around the city... Unfortunately the Opera museum was closed when we were there so we were unable to go inside, and the baptistry was completely covered ...

We saved enough money to go on another vacation, this was the first time we didn't have any tours scheduled, in our Easter Break in Holland we had Carmen and Joost and in the Czech Rep we had the  free & paid SANDEMANs tour .  in the end it turned out okay since we bought the Hop On Hop Off 36 hrs tickets in Rome, Venice was walkable and we rode on a vaporetto, and Florence was also a very walkable city and the maps were very detailed. This post  is going to be heavy on the pictures and light on the descriptions. If you want to know anything more about a specific picture, please ask!

Have you ever wanted to win a trip to somewhere, and just never knew how? Well, Ii went looking for some information and I found that Omni Hotel is having a sweepstakes, and it ends August 31st,. This gives you enough time to sign up! I leave you the information here: Omni Hotels & Resorts is running the “ Omni Summer Passport Sweepstakes “! Your chance to win round trip airfare and hotel accommodations for two to your choice of five Global Hotel Alliance destinations! Also, I mentioned in yesterday's post we have our next trip scheduled for August, I'm super excited we will be visiting Italy for the first time . We plan on spending a week there, and will visit four major cities, and are debating what route to take. I have a couple of things to plan for this trip and am really excited to be going on it! If you decide to participate in the sweepstakes I hope you have fun and I wish you good luck!

This is what happens when you have nothing to do, I took the "Where Should You Go on Vacation" quiz and got Paris as my answer, better yet it says I should spend my Christmas there, I think we'll be spending our Christmas vacation in Hamburg this year although we don't have any plans yet.. Paris won't be happening this year, maybe we'll be able to go next year, but for now we have our next trip booked already, I just booked our flights to Italy Where Should You Go on Vacation? from answerbuddy.com ! Now, we have to plan everything we want to do in Italy, we arrive in Pisa on August 14th. Our Plan in Italy Some of the must-see destinations for our first trip to Italy are Rome, Florence and Venice, probably doing 2-3 days in each city. We aren't booking any sights in advance, but we are definitely planning to go in to the Colosseum and the Vatican. Moving within Italy is where the question lies, we will not be renting a car an...