Thanks to everyone who came!!!
Where
Easy to find, just off Piazza della Signorina. If no one is outside, go inside and ask for the party of Katie or Sara. Please call the restaurant if you’re lost as I don’t know the small streets of Florence well.
I’Lorenzaccio
http://www.ristorantelorenzaccio.com/eng/lorenzaccio_eng.htm
Piazza della Signoria, 32-33-34/r
50122 Firenze
Tel. 055 294553 – Fax 055 264353
Expats Who Attended
I updated the list of who was there – If I left out someone, or a website, let me know!
- Sara, Ms. Adventures in Italy (probably +1) [Milan]
- Katie from Olio di Oliva e Sogni di Vino [Florence]
- Melinda from Living in Florence [Florence]
- Ilva from Lucullian Delights [Pistoia]
- Nyc/Caribbean ragazza from Sister Girl Tales [Rome]
- Erin from The Olive Notes and Chris from Come Essere Felice [Florence]
- Ben and Martha from Moving2Italy2 [Monte San Savino]
- Emily +1 from Confessions of a 20-something Caffeine Addict and Pilates in Florence [Florence]
- Tania and Keith (and Murphy!) from Eurobimbo’s Journey to Enlightenment [Cortona]
- Rachel +1 [Florence area]
- Martha and James from About.com [Lunigiana,Tuscany]
- Kelly from Fine Art by Kelly Borsheim [Florence]
- Michele “Cobalt” [Montalcino]
- Amanda +3 (+ dog) from A Tuscan view – from Umbria [Chiusi]
- Shannon +1 [Barberino di Mugello] (she’s offering a place to stay if you need it – see comment #35)
- Megan + 1 (+ Lucy the dog) from Bella Vita Italia [Liguria]
- Emma Downey from AngloInfo.com – Tuscany [Florence]
- Alyson +1 from Life in the City of Flowers [Florence]
- Nicki +2 from The Life I Chose [Positano]
- Matt from Traveling Matt [Florence]
- Michael, would-be Expat
- Charlene and Damien [Florence]
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I am SOO in! See ya there Sara! I will send you my italian mobile when I get there. a presto!
I am planning on it. It depends what happens with my apartment that weekend. If there are no complications, I will be there!
Sounds great! I´ll do my best to make it in from Genova… either just for the day or to spend one night in Florence. Really looking forward to meeting a lot of you expat folks in person.
Count us in. It will be our first GTG since moving to Italy last September. We been to 2 other GTGs when we were visiting Italy. The first one was in Cortona and the other was the Monster GTG in Chianti.
We will be driving up from Monte San Savino to go to Ikea and an oriental market out by Ikea before the GTG. We will be driving a Fiat Multipla and will have room for 2 – 3 people. If anyone is interested in riding up with us, please leave a comment on my blog, Moving2Italy2.
We look forward on seeing and meeting everyone.
Ciao, Ben
sorry to miss this!
I will be in New Orleans at a conference and return on the 23rd!
Sorry we won’t be able to be there! We’ll be flying back to the states that day for vacation! I hope someone posts pictures! Have fun!
Am really bummed to be missing this… Of course, I’m not really an expat yet, either – just an expat wannabe! Looking forward to when I get to go as a full-fledged member of the tribe. :)
Hey Sara, Thanks for the invitation; it sounds like a lot of fun. Unfortunately, I work in Como on Saturdays. Maybe the next get-together could be a lake(como)side picnic?
Really interested in coming but I need to conference call with three generations of menfolk! My Dad is visiting in April, my husband will be travelling for business and my son has a soccer tournament – if I can get them organized to either come or survive without me I’ll be there!
oops, forgot to mention that I will confirm either way asap!
Hi Sara….Melinda just let me know about the gtg, and we would love to attend!
The +2 are my husband and our toddler, so it’s really more like 1 1/2. We live here in Firenze. Can’t wait!
Michelle and I are so upset to miss this. Dang it! I say the next one should be in Bella Calabria. I bet a lot of you guys have never been down here!!!
It’s a wonderful idea but I don’t think I’ll be able to make it. It would be too complicated to travel with the kiddos and I don’t want to spend a wknd without them as I’ll be abandoning them at the end of April when the hubby and I go to Paris. If you ever organize anything in Lombardy, count me in! Como would be great and maybe George will host us at the villa. Magari!!!
Count me in, most likely Ale + the frugolo as well. Looking forward to it.
I’ll be “playing” expat for a short time, spending all of May and the first half of June living in Florence. Unfortunately, I won’t be there for this gathering, but would love to know about others during my time there. Ciao!
I would like to come if I can work out all the logisitics and we don’t end up with any last minute bookings for then. It would be very nice to meet some of the voices on the blogs and put some faces with them.
Would love to come and will drag out the hubby and possibly the ever friendly dog. I’ll bring up my meager supply of decent plastic wine glasses and some local wine … ’cause we all are bringing wine, right? I mean that is the “real” excuse for the get together ;-) Looking forward to seeing/meeting everyone!!!
We have baseball games that day in Milan, so unfortunately not possible for me… peccato!
Hopefully the next one, though…
Hi. Sono una artista e abito a Firenze. I am new to all of this, but a friend told me about Melinda Gallo’s blog, which I am trying to read all the way through. But I would love to meet more people a Firenze. Please keep me posted on where you decide to meet on the 19th. Grazie mille!
Ciao,
I live in Florence and I will be there!
I found your site when I was looking for information about Lucca Mannori in Prato. I’m going there this evening or tomorrow for his “Torta Setteveli”. YUM!!!
Thank God this is not the same weekend as Vinitaly which is April 3- 7. This will be my 3rd year attending this event.
If anyone here is interested in going with me, we could meet at the main train station in Florence or Verona on April 5th, Saturday.
Probably leave Florence about 8:30 or 9ish. If I remember right that puts us in Verona about 11ish.
You can buy tickets online, go to http://www.vinitaly.it
Thanks so much for letting me know about this event on April 19th. Look forward to meeting everyone!!!
ciao, DonnaMarie
Ciao,
I live in Florence and I will be there!
I found your site when I was looking for information about Lucca Mannori in Prato. I’m going there this evening or tomorrow for his “Torta Setteveli”. YUM!!!
Thank God this is not the same weekend as Vinitaly which is April 3- 7. This will be my 3rd year attending this event.
If anyone here is interested in going with me, we could meet at the main train station in Florence or Verona on April 5th, Saturday.
Probably leave Florence about 8:30 or 9ish. If I remember right that puts us in Verona about 11ish.
You can buy tickets online, go to www site of vinitaly.
Thanks so much for letting me know about this event on April 19th. Look forward to meeting everyone!!!
ciao, DonnaMarie
I live in the outskirts of Florence and would love to join! I just moved here in November from NYC with my husband (who’s originally from here)
This meet-up couldn’t be at a better time – Can’t wait to meet all of you!
Myself and my husband would love to come. We have moved to Florence just a month ago.
Thanks!
So excited to meet all of you!
James Martin (Europe Travel on about.com) and I would like to attend. We’re in the Lunigiana region of northern Tuscany.
Martha Bakerjian
Italy Travel on about.com
Perfect timing for me as I’ll be dropping a client in Florence that morning……..Gives me an excuse to stick around for a couple of days before heading back to the US
Ciao, tutti,
Cheryl
I was so excited to learn that I will be in Firenze on the 19th! I am not living in Italy at the moment, but hope to in the near future. Looking forward to meeting everyone!!
Well, sadly I can’t make it. Too many schedules to juggle and it really is too complicated this time around. I hope you all have a fabulous time – I’ll be thinking of you!
just a note that it will be me and chris (http://theproving.blogspot.com/) :)
I will be there! I am Cobalt from Expats in Italy. Thanks for organizing!
Karen + 1 (Livorno)
This sounds like fun. I’m hoping Julian and I will be able to get there. Looking forward to meeting everyone and putting faces to blogs. Amanda
Hi, it’s me again! There will be 2 of us coming and will be arriving from Chiusi. We will have to leave Florence by about 3pm so I hope that will give us enough time. Thanks Amanda
@erin – I’ve added Chris’ blog.
Thanks everyone for the RSVPs…keep ‘em coming!
I’ll be there, plus 1. I live in Barberino di Mugello, near Firenze. If anyone’s coming from far and wants a place to stay, we can hold up to four (two couples or family of 3-4). Barberino is about 35 mins by car, 1 hour by bus from Firenze Stazione SM Novella. You could come home from the GTG with us or hang out in Florence after and take the bus to Barberino. If interested, email me at shan333 at gmail dot com.
BTW– is this a Bring Your Own Cibo event, a potluck, or what?
Looking forward to meeting all of you!
Megan + 1 (husband) and possibly Lucy (dog) are coming. Looking forward to it!
Will be myself, husband and 3 year old little whirling dirvish of a son
Opps! I just realised it’s on a Saturday, please add 2 small ones and possibly a dog to our party. The more the merrier, right?
Hi Sara
I’m looking into plane/ferry but Mario and I will hopefully be there, too.
Emma
We’ll try to come up from Perugia! (Me + a husband and two tiny offspring.)
I have a few questions:
1. Is it possible to drive to the park?
2. Is there any parking close by?
3. Where will you all be located in the park?
4. Would anyone like a ride up from the Arezzo area?
Ciao, Ben
Was told about it by a friend who is coming. Not an expat yet, still in the planning stage. hope to get some good info.
michael
I’d love to come along – is there a phone number I can call if I get lost?
And any bad weather provisions?
Emma DOWNEY
Sounds good to me! Saturday’s not supposed to be so good but I’l sure it’ll be fun all the same. Thanks to 2Italy2 for the head’s up…!
I just heard about this from Melinda too, and would love to come with my husband. We’re living in Florence for the spring. Can you send me the info about the rain-day option? I’ll hope for sun, though!
Forgot to include my blog last time! No big deal if you can’t add it, but most people know me from it. The title is “Confessions of a 20-something Caffeine Addict” and the URL is http://web.mac.com. I also host http://www.PilatesinFlorence.com.
We want to drive toward Florence, then take the train from somewhere that we can park near a train station. We’ll be coming from direction of Lucca/Pisa. Any ideas?
Thanks, see you tomorrow.
Martha
Happy to have found your site. My wife and I have just moved to Florence from Cortona. We would like to know when your next GTG will be and how best to meet other Expats.
Thanks
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