Italy Blog #28: Florence at Night and a Hot Waiter

Tom, Andre and Rob

In today's 28th blog about Florence, Italy we'll show you some pictures of the city at night (including the Uffizi Gallery) and you'll meet our handsome waiter who wound up being our waiter the entire stay in Florence. He was that good. :) 

We sat at the first table each time!

ANDRE THE WAITER- The first night we were in Florence we spotted a restaurant called "Move On - Italian Pub and Record Store"  across from St. Mary of the Flower Basilica so we decided on dinner there.  We were treated with service from a really hot Italian waiter named Andre who got our pasta and cheese-less pizza order right (it was fantastic).  He was very flirtatious - and we later learned he has a girlfriend, so he knew how to appeal to his customers for a big tip. LOL.

Tom and Rob enjoying dinner

Florence lit up at night with Tom (right)

   After that first dinner, he asked "See you tomorrow?"  Of course, that sounded like an invitation to us, so of course we went back there the next 2 nights in Florence. Andre asked if we wanted the same orders, and we did (yes, 3 nights in a row), and he remembered it perfectly. We wanted to take him with us to Rome! 

This building contained a lot of shops

 FLORENCE AT NIGHT -The city was pretty well lit up at night and we felt safe to walk around. There were a lot of people up and around (of course it was only 9pm when we were headed back to the hotel each night, and people in Italy don't eat dinner until 8 p.m while we always ate around 5 or 6 p.m.!

Uffizi Gallery

THE UFFIZI GALLERY LIT UP- The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in central Florence. We didn't go through it but we did see it all lit up at night.  
Some History: The building of Uffizi complex was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici so as to accommodate the offices of the Florentine magistrates, hence the name uffizi, "offices". The construction was later continued by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti and completed in 1581. 
What's in it?   It's now an art gallery and has paintings by Rafael, Caravaggio, Durer, Rubens and Rembrant to name a few.  

NEXT:  The Palazzo (Palace) Davanzati