Florence: A Timeless City | Rob Zeigler

After twelve hours of travel by car and plane, I now find myself on a Freciarossa high speed train tearing its way through the Tuscan countryside at 300km per hour. The Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino airport in Rome is now a distant memory. My airplane window view of puffy clouds has been replaced with a train window view of lush green hills and beautiful Tuscan villages. I try my best to counteract the impending jet lag by pulling out my camera. Eventually the view transitions into a blurry mixture of tall trees, soundproofing walls and continuous pitch-black tunnels. Announcements in Italian blare over the speakers – their English translations come soon after. In what seems like only minutes after leaving Rome, we’re pulling into Florence…….

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