Florence
While sight seeing the many Renaissance buildings around Florence we decided to find a few caches along the way. Firstly we attempted a cache which is located at the top of Piazzale Michelangelo. The location of the cache was quite muggle free as it's actually located on the "less cool" view side of the Plaza. There is also another co-ordinates cache near by but it does involve walking down the hill looking for clues and then back up! Perhaps a more better cache in a cool evening when you haven't done much walking during the day. We were unable to find the cache but were aware that there was a spoiler picture in the gallery.
No signal up the Plaza so we decided to come back at night and were successful with the cache. The cache had been ruined and unfortunately was literally just a small bag with a log that was full and people were using recipients to write on. I didn't get a picture of the log purely because I just forgot but I took some photos of the view!
Forte Belvedere
The next cache we did was, as mentioned in the Travelling Troll and Bunculuka updates, a hard walk up a steep hill. I got quite fed up of the continuous climb especially after having just climbed the steps to the Plaza. It was a small cache but luckily we squeezed in two trackables. We also picked up a trackable Glenturret 05 - besucht alle Deutschen Bundesländer which had come from Germany and we have bought it back to the UK with us.
MOZART E L' AQUILA NERA
A much more central cache, it's very close to the Cathedral but just off a side street with hardly any muggles. Although it is quite close to a restaurant/cafe that people were outside. I don't think anyone paid much attention to us but hopefully we weren't too suspicious.
I notice with Florence caches is that they aren't rain protected at all, the Mozart cache was just literally sitting on the post, they clearly don't have any concerns for rain or wind unlike our caches in the UK that are wrapped in bags, tight boxes and hidden in holes!
On our last day we traveled to Pisa for some sight seeing as the airport we were traveling to was in Pisa. We went to the location of the cache but after actually reading the description we realised it wasn't in the central tourist area inside the walls. It was actually located externally which required us walking around the whole wall because the footpath was locked for some reason.
The hole in the wall is pretty obviously hand stacked to hide something but I think it's far away enough from the path that passers by wouldn't ever even look. It was a simple small cache literally placed behind the stacked rocks.
We only managed a few caches around Florence and one in Pisa but we can safely say we have some Italian caches under our belt!
