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The David Inn Hostel, Florence, Italy
This is a very solo traveler-friendly hostel. First off and crucial to any world journeyer, the hostel is near almost every touristy site you’d want to see, super close to the Santa Maria Novella (main) train station (about a five minute walk), and super inexpensive (around 14-18 euros off-season, 22-25 euros for on season) for what is included: simple, but clean room, kitchen for cooking, 24-hour reception, lockers for your valuables, and they provide linens. The David Inn has another great facet to it: the building itself is “very Italian.” I will get into this a bit more, but what I noticed right away about some of the cities in Tuscany (Pisa in particular) was some of them appeared quite irregular of Italian standards. Something was missing from the streets of Pisa and even some things lacking in Lucca, I felt were supposed to just exist. I didn’t have that problem in Florence.
I’ve read some reviews of Florence leading me to believe I would find an Americanized (not always a bad thing, right?) milieu while there, but what I discovered was a fact tantalizing my brain chords that was truly welcome - I was in Florence!!
Lastly, like many other hostels I was lucky enough to find, this one was accessible to a plethora of adventurous people all just as anxious as myself to see anything worth seeing. In a mere thirty minutes of returning from my walk around downtown Florence with a great couple who experienced the Uffizi Museum with me, I secured a night walk with two American girls from Kentucky and one Aussie bloke who said the walk through the city at night was “wicked awesome”. So off we went and from our hostel into the night and with no hostel curfew to press our time, we casually melded into the Italian atmosphere. Some would say they couldn’t even begin to describe the difference of Florence during the day to night, but you should know me by now . . . I’m going to damn sure try. Read On…
The David Inn (Hostel)
Via Ricasoli 31
Florence, Italy
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