---
title: "Florence for friends"
date: 2022-05-25
tripit: 317756379
nights: 3
modes: ["air"]
flights:
  -
    date: 2022-05-25
    number: KL1643
    from: AMS
    to: FLR
    km: 1057
  -
    date: 2022-05-28
    number: KL1646
    from: FLR
    to: AMS
    km: 1057
destinations:
  -
    title: "Florence"
    nights: 3
    location: "Hotel Continentale"
    geo: [43.76870, 11.25345]
---

US friends had excess miles so made a trip to Italy, we joined in Florence to have nise meals and walks with them.

Dinner at the [Osteria del Pavone](http://osteriadelpavone.it/) was a real treat, along with a bottle of orange wine from "la casa del gatto" not labeled for retail, and a
2018 red (purportedly one of only 300 bottles) from [Rasenna in Tuscany](http://rasennaintuscany.com/), made "Etruscan style" with more than grapes and aged in buried clay jars. Both were quite special and the latter was a sort of bucket list item for me.

Florence is of course beautiful, but was too hot (above 30°) and too busy (with American tourists) for me.
