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10/2/2018 38 Comments A Weekend in FlorenceThis has been said over and over again, but I’ll say it again: one of the best parts of studying abroad is the opportunity to travel. Getting together with new friends and planning a trip to a different country or a different part of Italy for every weekend of the semester is definitely a regular occurrence. My calendar is quickly filling up, and my bank account is quickly emptying. Planning some stay at home weekends is not only a good way to save money, but a great way to carve out time to explore the city of Florence more fully. So here we are, about three weeks into the semester, and I spent my first full weekend in Florence! To be honest, this was more of a rest weekend for me. I recently got sick, so I wanted to take a chill weekend to fully recover. Since I knew that I was spending some time in the city, I wanted to look for really local things to do. Protip: there are ALWAYS events going on in Florence. You can definitely find things going on through the free newsletters that they have around FUA and the SAI office. I look through The Florentine, Florence is You!, and Florence News all the time to find things that are happening that week to see if I might be able to fit it into my schedule. The best part about these newsletters is that they all have websites too. There’s always a variety of bigger events and smaller, more local things going on, so there’s something for everybody! One of the things that really sounded interesting to me was a vintage clothes and beer festival nearby. Always a sucker for vintage clothes, I decided it’d be cool to try to go to a smaller, more local deal. And this wasn’t going to be in the city center either. It was located at a courtyard by a nearby arena called the Visarno Arena. The arena was about 2-3 kilometers from the city center. My options were walking for a really long time, or taking public transportation. So Saturday was the day that I had to figure out how to use the city bus for the first time. First of all, the bus was super easy to figure out. You just go to your local tobacco shop (you’ll see the signs that say tabacchi) and ask for a ticket on the ataf (the name of the bus/tram company). A ticket lasts you for a 90-minute trip, and it’s only € 1.50. All of the bus lines are easily available online, and there are usually signs on every bus stop with the routes printed on them. So I grabbed a friend, hopped on the C3 line towards the nearest stop to the Visarno Arena: Stazione Leopolda. As a girl who grew up in the suburbs of Southeastern United States, I’m not the most familiar with public transportation. I’m really just used to being able to drive everywhere on long roads with lots of trees everywhere. So the cobblestone alley ways and tunnels of buildings in Florence are not too familiar. When I got off the bus, I had some déjà vu going on. This area outside the city felt so much more like the areas of the United States that I’m used to. I had to walk another 10-15 minutes to get to the actual festival, and along the way I saw so many familiar residential elements. There were trees and decent sized sidewalks. I saw parks, people playing basketball, apartment complexes, etc. I had honestly forgotten that fall was starting until I was surrounded by trees beginning to show spots of orange. It was so nice to get some time outside of the city. And to be honest, I probably could have taken a different bus line to get closer to the courtyard, but I really did enjoy the walk through the park. When we got there, we saw a few small tents with plenty of pop up shop style stands and some beer stands towards the back. If you’ve ever been to an art festival in the United States, this small festival had a very similar feel. It was nice to experience something familiar, but with a different cultural twist. The styles felt very similar and had similar colors to popular American vintage styles, but with different fabrics and patterns than I’m used to. Like, if you’ve ever been to an art festival with vintage stands, you’ll definitely recognize the brightly colored windbreakers and 80s blazers on display. There were plenty of those here, but also some interesting shirts and skirts with odd patterns and fabrics that I wasn’t used to in the US. There were also a ton of vintage bags of all kinds of styles, and an unlimited supply of boots. So many boots. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring cash with me, so I couldn’t actually buy anything. Getting to see all of the clothes and experience the atmosphere was honestly enough for me though. Do you ever see anyone with the way they’re dressed and their general disposition and you think: Wow, they are so much cooler than me? Yeah, that was like every Italian there. A cool, artsy person with tattoos who was into vintage clothes and craft beer. I’m hoping I got at least 1% cooler just by being there. All in all, it was a good experience getting to visit this small festival. It was super cute, and the experience getting there made me feel more comfortable with the idea of venturing to the edges of the city of Florence. I wasn’t brave enough to try to strike up conversation with anyone, but I think venturing out into the local scene was already something that I’m proud to have done. This arena has local markets every so often, so I’m sure I could probably visit another one and try again. This time with cash and more bravery.
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