Let me tell you all about our hosts, Francesca and Alessandro. They are the reason that AirBNB is so awesome! We unfortunately never met Francesca but we were texting the whole time and we did meet Alessandro. One of the nicest human beings we have ever met. He started by carrying my wife's suitcase of four flights of stairs (FYI, this apartment is on the top floor but worth the climb and easier if you have a backpack) and then showed us around the apartment. But that is not enough for these two expert AirBNB'ers.... they have on a table a full layout of current events in the city, a little travel journal, a large bottle of water in the fridge (life saver) and our favorite; a listing of everywhere in the city to get the best sandwich, pizza, dinner, and gelato! We through Rick Steeves aside and just carried that paper around with us. Alessandro also came back the next day to help us with the WIFI because we were not smart enough to figure it out. We took their recommendations for pizza and dinner and were not disappointed.

The locations was so prime we didn't know what to do first. Right next to the Uffizi gallery, 5 easy minutes to Ponte Verde, and a 15 minute walk from the train station. Let me tell you what else, we found the sandwich place 10 steps from the front door, I Fratellini (we saw it on their list afterwards, duh), and we ate there three times in our last day and a half. Get any sandwich with the goat cheese and don't be ashamed to order the $5 glass of Brunello DOCG at 10:00 AM, no one cares. Next, for the end of you night, also 10 steps away, if you are into beer you have to go to King Grizzly! Local little pub with american Irish pub feel too it. The owner is big on beer and has about 9 taps of all local microbrews! They didn't have any t-shirts for sale when I was there so if you could, grab one and send it to me... I'll pay double:) Very cool find in Italy and we made some lifelong friends also traveling on their honeymoon.

We will definitely stay here again and would recommend you to stay as well. Next time we do Italy it will hopefully be in this place for about 2 weeks and we will day trip it from here. Florence was our favorite and Francesca and Alessandro were big reasons for that! Thanks you two!