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Florence, Italy, Bar Piccadilly Pizza, Grom Ice Cream, Peruzzi Leather, Quality Hotel Green Palace Europe Trip Day 6 Experiences

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today i woke up at 7.10am.
first of all, this post was updated with the Free Wifi internet connection from Quality Hotel Green Palace that located at somewhere near Italy.
somehow i had been thinking a lot through this few day although i know i should keep myself relax while enjoying the Europe trip experiences.
honestly, i do hope that i can write every single details things that i encounter for most of my time from UK to Europe trip so that i can "see" whether it is worth come this foreign country such as joining the Tong Hang tour group or choosing a backpacking trip and others related things.
however, time really wait no one as i feel myself seems to be keep "competing with Time VS Money" because every minutes really counts as it is like counting my own remaining time in this "cruel" world.

anyways, i do record most of the sharing story by the tour guide from the bus using my phone's recording that i will publish to Soundclound after this 15 days and 14 night Europe trip journey ends because it is quite expensive for the bus coach tipping fee that cost for €60 in total out of €192 that we already paid as below.
frankly speaking, i don't feel like going for the French Meal in Paris for €40 but most of the people had joined and it is quite "funny" if i go to Switzerland but did not pay €58 for the Mount Titlis where i ended up selected all of it.
after i awakens, i just went to have my breakfast at the lobby and there was just bread, jams, cereal milk but do not have hams this time.
around 8.35am we make a move from the Lago Verde Pistoia (Tuscany) hotel as shown below. (lake view)
somehow the surrounding of the view of hotel was quite nice.

during the morning, the tour guide wishes us a Happy Moon cake Festival which is also known as Mid-Autumn festival but i this year i couldn't celebrate since i was still in Europe country.
besides, the coach also shared about the culture of Italy whereby they don't really change much as they wish to preserve their tradition.
around 9.55am we reached at somewhere near Florence (Firenze) and took some picture as below.
then we make a move again at 10.30am and i do feel that there is not much place to go as it seems like quite rush when joining tour.
when we reach the city, i continue to take some picture as shown below.
somehow i do have some thought again such as "what is the olden days army feelings when they conquer an empire and rape those girls" together with some "funny weird" thought.

after that, i just have my lunch at the Bar Piccadilly pizza restaurant that cost for €3.50 per slice together with Free Wifi (password = barpiccadillybarpiccadilly) available as shown below.
moreover, you can use their toilet because i heard other place would charge about €0.50~€1.50 for using the public toilet if you did not buy anything.
around 1.25pm i make from there after write a quick update of my "delayed few day ago blog post" and go to the Grom shop because they are one of the famous ice cream shop in Italy as it cost €2.50 with 2 flavour (vanila and chocolate) as shown below.
next, the tour guide gather us at the center of the town and we headed to the Peruzzi leather shop because they was one of the famous brand in Italy as shown below.
seriously there was a lot of Asian people buying those bags but i did not buy any of it.

somehow i do feel that it might be true that "most of our Asian culture is brainwashed with branded item" from foreign country just like one of the story shared by the coach.
for example, if "LV, Gucci, Prada, Miu Miu" or other branded stuff is being manufactured in China, there will be not much value but the price would be different if they manufacture in Italy factory using same cheap labor from China, Bangladesh and others cheap labour country, people would still buy it as long as the product is shown "Made in Italy" in their mindset.
furthermore, i do feel that "people only value others by what you wear" instead of the moral value you have as i heard some story shared by coach about the "Chinaman" related things. (perhaps i was hypocrite too since i am not rich, that's why can express so much? Maybe things will be different if i am rich in real life as i will not criticize what the rich people do, no idea since i haven reach that kind of Rich status level)

anyways, one important things that shared by the coach was "Don't Envy or Jealous others people" because we don't know what they had sacrifice behind their success story.
during the evening, i just buy some Pinochio pens for €1.20 as my souvenir and took some picture before leaving there at 3.55pm as shown below.
besides, a friend just shared that the data plan for mobile phone would cost about €15 in total as below but i did not sign up since i feel it is not necessary to keep myself "updated" in some way.
in fact, i don't really want to spend such money for having internet connection because the reason behind for every status posted or updates seems to be just "attention seeker" as it is like showing off to others people for "liking my picture" in Facebook. (really feel contradict when i still writing this post, it might explain why i don't feel like writing anymore sooner or later although i really like to write about the things i encounter)

around 5.50pm we reach some petrol station and i had spend another €6.50 for the spaghetti from Autogrill as shown below.
somehow the taste was quite "weird" for me since i don't really like to eat spaghetti but no choice due to not much food available as the tastier the food, the more expensive it will be.
actually the decision to buy food in Europe country was quite contradict because i would still think about the "conversion rate" because i can almost eat a wonderful Buffet dinner in Malaysia if it cost €10 (RM50+) for a meal since i had used pound sterling to exchange for Euro dollar that somehow did not have much different.
after having our dinner, we make a move around 7pm and finally reach the Quality Hotel Green Palace (Via Salaria 207, Monterotondo scalo, Italy) around 8.05pm as below.
well, the room was quite nice as it looks modern as the tour guide say this hotel was new.

actually i still think a lot when the coach keep sharing a lot of life story such as the younger generation (Green Horns) seems to be keep choosing job instead of working long term in a company when most of the boss complain that it is hard to employ young people to work.
anyways, i don't feel like thinking and worrying so much about my future because if i am not happy at this moment, how would i able to happy in future?
in fact, travelling "alone" in Europe without a group of ex-college classmate seems to be a disadvantage in some ways that only myself will truly understand about it.
at last, i still wish i can update my older post (17th and 18th Europe trip) so that i am able to complete my 365th blog post for this year but it seems that it is quite hard to make it happen and it start to be sounds "useless to update" no matter how much passion or i had enjoyed through whining writing in this blogging environment.
(Self Expenses note: Today €13.70)
T.T

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