Day 7 –Florence/Venice - Thursday, January 9th 2014

We were on the road again today by 8:30am. A short ride saw us at the lookout that allows an uninterrupted view of Florence.

Florence with the Domo standing tall

The first Pic showing the 3 teachers together. Mr O’Brien, Mrs Vial and Mr Scritchley

Reece, Robert and Bryce “fighting”  over the telescope…which didn’t work anyway!

After a short stop at the lookout we had a 2hr drive to Maranello to view the Ferrari Museum. This was a highly anticipated part of the trip.

The group and the Guide with a priceless Ferrari 166 F2 from 1951

This car (275 GTB4 1966) Belonged to Steve McQueen

The GTB that belonged to McQueen was just beautiful. It had been so magnificently restored and it was Ferrari’s answer to the E type Jaguar. It is a slightly deeper tone of red.

A 430 Scuderia

A 478 Hp Ferrari Engine

The show also included the latest in the concept cars of the very near future.

The Ferrari of the Future. The 2012 concept car

The racers that won the manufactures Championship in F1

The Ferrari shop had a lot of patronage, even though it was very expensive. The F1 simulator also had a bit of a workout

James in the F1 Simulator….Dreaming his dreams! (and crashing a lot!)

Soon it was all over. The boys had to let go their racing red dreams and re-enter the world. Soon it was back on a staid and steady old bus and leave behind the glory of “The Prancing Horse”. 

It was another 2 hours before we arrived at the docks to transfer from land to water transport. Our bags were loaded into the barge and we loaded ourselves into a water taxi for the trip to our Hostel.

The group in the water taxi

Once there some washing, resting, pool playing and soccer on the TV watching took place.