Hi guys! Max and I just wanted to check in we are heading to the airport
We're going to Tuscany! We're going to Florence yeah! And we're trying to pack up -
- and I always try to keep it light but it's not easy keeping it light when
you're traveling with a baby so we're trying to keep it to one suitcase -
- and fit everything for all three of us and thankfully this little dude has decided
that he does not want a bottle anymore so we don't have to bring all that stuff
Right? You're a big boy! Okay so we're trying to fit everything into this one
suitcase and then we have this bag that's a diaper bag it's now a carry-on
So we'll see you in the airport. Can you wave? See you in the airport!
- Ready to fly to Frankfurt and then to Florence - Yep!
Max is a trooper he's hooked up with his cartoons and then he's good to go
He haven't slept all day but he's keeping up!
Hi guys we arrived in Tuscany Sunday and today's Wednesday
Monday we were out filming a beautiful town house
with some people here in Florence yesterday we just took it easy we've
been having some problems with the heat at the house where we're staying it's up
in the mountains and there's no heat so there's no hot water either so sorry for
the looks but um yeah but today we're out exploring and we are in a small town
called the Fiesole or something like that. It's - if you go to Florence then it's
up north and it's in the mountains so supposedly there are great views overlooking
Florence and the Duomo and they have an amphitheater up here and some good
restaurants so well just see what we get to check out today
When traveling always remember to start the day off with pastries. We found the Amphitheatre
It's beautiful, I'll show you around in just a second!
I love places like this you can just kind of imagine like over here is the
gate and the horses they would ride in and they have a big show and all these
people up here cheering and having fun and some people up here maybe dancing
putting on a show it might not have been that elaborate but you never know they
had like lions and whole ships and stuff in the Coliseum so you never know!
This area right here we actually read that this section over here is part
of the old Etruscan temple and an altar and then the new like the Roman temple
was this big part over there so they did as they do so many times they built on
top of what was previously a holy building and they just kind of adapted
to the new religion we're standing on Etruscan ruins that's pretty cool
- And this was apparently a swimming pool - I hope they heated the water
Don't you think they heated the water? They had like running water in the toilets and
everything back then they're pretty sophisticated so they would probably
have found a way to heat this water
It's been a lot of fun to explore this little gem up on the hill and now we are
ready to find some lunch
This is very steep!
We had some delicious lunch and some very like basic pasta - no spaghetti - like
they like in Italy they like everything separate so we had some spaghetti with
truffle oil and then we had some meatballs after us like the second
course and then we were gonna get some dessert but Max woke up so now we're
heading up too close to where there's a monastery up on this top up on this
hilltop and it's supposed to have a great view so it's very steep
Okay I am really out of shape I'll give you that but look at those steps!
That is very visual of how steep this actually is, it's very steep!
This view is amazing it was really worth the steep walk up here and over there -
- you can see the Duomo and all downtown Florence and all the hills of
Tuscany it's really beautiful if it hadn't been hazy today it would have
been totally like picture-perfect clear but this is really beautiful as well you
can see the fog kind of go like in between all the rolling hills it's really beautiful!
What are you guys doing?
Did you find something?
Thank you, good job! Acorns!
Let's find that monastery
What do you think of this monastery Max? You like it? You don't like it.
He just want to get down
I really like the view up here and it's so quiet and just serene
This is a place where I could actually just sit for a few hours and just enjoy
the quiet and the view now let's head back down maybe we'll find some dessert
maybe we'll head back home not completely sure but it's been kind of
fun to explore Tuscany again because we were just fairly recently here six
months ago in April we spent a whole month here so we didn't really want to
just go back to the same places again so we tried to do a few other places that
we didn't get to explore last time and it's been fun and Fiesole is definitely
one of those places that we didn't we just didn't make it here the last time
and I'm really glad that we did this time so if you're here for a longer
period of time more than just a few days and definitely
try and get up here and check it out - the views are amazing!