Ashley's Abroad Adventures
A blog dedicated to my semester abroad in Florence, Italy!
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This sounds so awesome!! I wish I was in Firenze for this!! Definitely not helping with my Europe/Firenze withdraws!!
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Great article! Check it out!
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Sooo I recently found this website, and I’m a little obsessed with it! It’s wonderful! Lots of upcoming events in Florence and the surrounding Tuscany…really interesting articles on the arts, nightlife, music, food and wine…everything you’d want to check out! I love it! Wish I had seen it before I went abroad!
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Quote reblogged from A Day In The LifeThe most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.Ernest Hemingway (via paula-valeria)
(Source: miracleingredient)
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For my Comm class I had to make a website about my study abroad experiences….it’s much different than this blog, but it’s interesting nonetheless! Check it out!! :)
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Photo reblogged from A Day In The Life
HAPPY 538th BIRTHDAY MICHELANGELO!!
Soooo after you study one artist for a semester, and get to go and see almost all of his work, it’s only natural to become obsessive! It was such an amazing class and experience! So here’s to the man that lived his long and eventful life, which we then learned about! The man, the myth, and the legend! I’m so fortunate to have been able have this Michelangelo Seminar experience. Definitely my favorite class abroad! Missing Guido and my classmates! <3
(Some works I don’t have…didn’t take pictures of…the Bacchus, the works at the Casa Buonarroti (Battle of the Centaurs, and Madonna of the Steps), Dying/Rebellious Slaves (from the Louvre, as well as the other prisoners from the Accademia…no photos in the Accademia..), Doni Tondo (painting in Uffizi), the Last Judgement (Sistine Chapel), and so many other works of architecture and drawings and unfinished or partly worked on works of sculpture.)
(Wed. March 6th, 2013)
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Photo reblogged from A Day In The Life
![“Io fu già quel che voi sete: e quel ch’i’ son voi a[n]co[r] sarete”.
I once was what you are and what I am you also will be.
A detail of Masaccio’s Holy Trinity in the church of Santa Maria Novella. I remember learning this when I was in 10th grade (my first art history class) and just being in a kind of awe. For some reason it has stuck with me.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/c2a839474237c0cca8e10aed798b9b44/tumblr_mibju0AzZ51qfppbzo1_500.jpg)
“Io fu già quel che voi sete: e quel ch’i’ son voi a[n]co[r] sarete”.
I once was what you are and what I am you also will be.
A detail of Masaccio’s Holy Trinity in the church of Santa Maria Novella. I remember learning this when I was in 10th grade (my first art history class) and just being in a kind of awe. For some reason it has stuck with me.
(Source: somethingstupidaboutcassie)
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Photo reblogged from A Day In The Life
A view of Piazza della Signoria in 1890. Photo Archivio Alinari, Firenze Magazine n.8
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Here is a list of my favorites…
Gelateria:
-Badiani
-Gelateria Santa Trinita
-Carabe
-Gelateria dei Neri
Food:
-Pasta- Yellow Bar, Osteria Il Gatto e La Volpe
-Pizza- Gusta Pizza
-Mexican- Tijuana
Cafes:
-Meykadeh LibreriaCafe
-Uffizi Cafe (in the Uffizi)
Aperitivo
-Kitsch
BEST MEAL IN ITALY-
Trattoria Anna Maria in Bologna, Italy
Granted, with my program I didn’t eat out in Florence much because I usually ate dinner with my host family…so I didn’t get to explore much of the restaurants. But here is just a few of my favorites. (But the gelateria…I definitely explored! Haha)
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There are definitely words I miss hearing/saying all the time. Here is a list:
Allora..
Boh *shrug*
Eccola
Aspetta!
Ciao
Buona sera/ serata/ giorno
Non lo so
Non capisco
Perfetto
Grazie
Prego
Andiamo!
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Photo reblogged from A Day In The Life
I miss days like this…so much!
I loved the freedoms. I loved being on my own, exploring and learning. This was a beautiful, warm November day. I love this random picture very much.
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Just did a quick count of how many gelato eating pictures I have from my abroad time…and the number is about 30 some pictures (and that’s barely anything because I stopped taking pictures every time I had a gelato because it would be too much haha). I’m going to have to make a collage soon! :) And the funny thing was that when I was looking through my pictures with my mind on gelato….even if I didn’t take a picture of it, I still remember that soon after many of the pictures were taken I went and got some gelato!! And even better…I remember where I got it and how good my gelato was!
Oh man…I definitely miss my daily dose of gelato! Nothing quite compares to it here…
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Photoset reblogged from A Day In The Life
Nightlife in Prague, Krakow (Poland), and Budapest!
Some of my favorite bars/nightlife scenes during my Fall Break to Eastern Europe!
