Life In Italy: solo trip to Florence, train journey, cafès, stationery shops & hidden spots (Vlog)

I'm in Florence. I came here all by myself without telling anyone that I booked the tickets like three weeks ago and now I'm here. I just wanted to spend like solo day to connect with my inner self and like discover my creativity because I'm in this period of my life that I feel lost. career-wise. So today I'm here. I want to experience the day all by myself, just alone with my thoughts, and maybe do a little shopping, especially from stationery shop. Yeah, so I'm just here. Let's spend the day together. There are no plans. Yesterday I asked on Instagram for recommendations on where can I go, and I received a bunch of recommendations. So I'm just gonna try to do some of them because I don't have the time to do all of them, obviously. So let's spend the day together. I thought going on the very last day of September would mean fewer tourists, but I was very wrong. The city was still packed, so I started escaping into the little side streets, just looking for somewhere quiet to breathe for a second. And that's when I stumbled across Brac, this cute bookstore and restaurant I had never heard of before. It looked so inviting that I ended up going in for breakfast. Quick breakfast in this cute coffee shop slash bookstore and it was like a co-working area and now i'm on my way to Uffizi Cinema i think it's a really popular place although today i will try not to do all the tourist things i think i will try to be like more local But still that place I've been dying to see. I mean I'm so curious how does it look in real life and I think today I need to buy an A4 paper or maybe a notebook or something because I forgot to bring mine and I can't place them because... The book that I'm reading currently is not a physical book. I'm listening, actually, and it helps. I think I really started liking listening books so that I can still do something else meanwhile listening. Beautiful little shops, I still couldn't find a journal I really loved, so the idea of making my own journal started to make more and more sense. For lunch I crossed the bridge and headed to Oltrarno thinking it might be a little quieter here. The views of the Ponte Vecchio and the Arno River were absolutely beautiful. Natural water. Thank you. Thank you. Nasty time. I know I've been quite a bit on this vlog and I want to tell you the reason why. This trip is not going the way that i imagine it would. i couldn't find any notebook that i like and not a pen although i've been through a lot of stationery shops and there are way too many tourists. yeah i mean i'm one of them. i don't have a problem with that. i mean i love milan, i love rome but i think florence is too small to handle this amount of tourists. there is like you can feel it the streets are narrow and it's not that a big city and everything is closed Closer to each other, you can walk everywhere. So this makes it too, I don't know, overwhelming. I almost had like panic attack in the middle of the square in the city center that I had to get myself out of that. I need to get myself out of there so yeah I mean I think on social media I kind of expected more peace and quiet and like Italy vibes from the city but instead I think it more like I don't know there are like big groups of tourists everywhere I just couldn't enjoy it. The city is gorgeous though so I understand why everybody's coming here from all over the world. It's a really important city But I think there should be, I don't know, some limitations, some management of it. Now I'm going up to Piazzale Michelangelo and we'll see if it's quiet in there. So on my way up to Piazzale Michelangelo, I came across a garden called Giardino delle Rose. I hadn't seen this garden mentioned in any of the travel guides or recommendations I came across, so I was really happy I found it. People were lying on the grass, reading books, taking maps with their partners, simply Enjoying a quiet moment, the view was absolutely gorgeous. I loved it so much that I decided to lie down and end my day there too. I think this was actually my favorite part of the whole day. It was so romantic and peaceful, so if you're planning a trip to Florence, I would definitely say do not skip this garden. I wanted to end this vlog by thanking Fabrique for these pieces I loved so much that I wore them twice in the same week. I'll leave all the details in the description. Love you guys so so much and I'll see you in the next vlog.