Florence - a tale of two cities (well 2 journalists to be precise)

Florence to many a visitor has too much pomposity for its own good.  Well any city that can boast of sons like Michelangelo, Dante and Machiavelli then you can see why.  This view of Florence is misguided – the Renaissance city needs to be explored to appreciate its beating heart.  So that is our task today.  Hire a car from Pronto: The Italian car hire specialists and we have 12 hours to report back on what we find.   Hailing from Italy but not Florence the first thing we observe is the mix of population renowned for being hearty and non conformist but in their slip stream – eternal romantics – as you would expect as Florence is set in the lush rolling hills of Tuscany.  The bi-product - a wonderful Florence that has been at the heart of a civil and cultural revolution.    No guns or sword drawn today so we have no problems that about the car we hired from Pronto being damaged – but we did have the excessive covered. 

The Pronto Car Hire litmus test for a city is to ask a local – at random – to suffer a ‘tourist’ and give us their recommendations on what to see and do in Florence.  What a joy!  It was if the 3 we asked worked for the Florence tourist board.   The recommendations were amazing from the expected – you know the Ponte Vecchio etc to the best place for espresso!  So much so and to the probable (joking annoyance) of Garry that manages Pronto car hire in Florence we are going to split our article into 2 reports.

Garry here – lol:  I would expect no less but you two make sure that Florence is given the adulation it deserves.

PS – don’t forget where you parked the car in Florence you Roman reviewers (I have it out next week – BTW how did you get an A3 convertible – I need to speak to Janice in Rome – lol)