my tea tales: May 2013

As my career has progressed I have realised that I like to research and organise. So for the second time in four years I organised a city break for myself and my female colleagues. I am lucky that the females in my department are such good friends and all around the same age. Four years we went to Istanbul and it was fantastic.

This year we decided to go to Florence. It is a place that all eight of us had not yet been to and all wanted to visit. So in the Summer of last year we booked flights with British Airways for under a hundred pounds.

Florence is beautiful and much more than I had expected. Sometimes it felt that you are were walking in a film set because it just seemed so surreal. The biggest surprise was the food. Because there was so many of us I researched hard for restaurants that took reservations and served traditional food that was popular with Florentines and not so much with tourists.

Anyway below are some of the pictures from my trip. Highlights were the pizzas at O'Munaciello which were fantastic and the eat all you want buffet brunch (22 euros)at Obika which was just sublime. Seeing the Leaning Tower was also a bit surreal for for all the times you see it in images the lean in the tower is really breathtaking.