{"id":3140,"date":"2021-08-09T18:09:05","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T16:34:18","slug":"zac-richman-post-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/2021\/08\/09\/zac-richman-post-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Zac Richman: Post 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Zac Richman
ISA 2021
Florence, Italy
August 7, 2021<\/p>\n

My commute to class every day was filled with history that I sometimes ignored out of habit, as I became more familiar with the city. \"\"My bike ride from Via Venezia 2 to Via Ricasoli 21 became much more routine, after I learned to stop taking the bike down the 600 year old cobblestone roads.<\/p>\n

\"\"My bike was a rental I usually picked up from my walk to the city center, which I did most days. I had Florence to myself, until 3pm every day, so there was plenty of time to grab brunch and wander around the city. There, I\u2019d find a bike that was a part of my rental program I had signed up for. I payed for a month and within a couple days I had gotten my money\u2019s worth, as I lived around 15 minutes walk from class. It was a short 15 minutes from Il Duomo, too, which helped shape my understanding of how long a walk actually was. Yesterday, I walked to Siena from the train station, a quick two mile hike up a mountain.\"\" In Florence, I pass the , the home of The David, almost every day. I\u2019d race busses down this busy street, one of the only two-way streets in the city. Everything else is one-way and extremely tight. \"\"In Siena, we had to move tables off the street so a man in a truck could make the tight squeeze down the hill. After I arrive at my school, I\u2019m greeted by a typical Florentine cafe with students waiting tables and extremely fancy dishes for cheap, as culinary students show off their creations. Sometimes I cool off on the back patio, which is covered by sun sails to block out the beating heat. Whether biking or walking, everyone is sweaty in Florence, and it\u2019s important to sit down and dry out a little before class.<\/p>\n

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I think the concept of walking everywhere you go has changed the way I think about distance, time value and pride. The distances I walk don\u2019t feel as long as they sound, I see things I would\u2019ve missed if I had been on a bus, I get a good workout in and I\u2019m proud that I\u2019m able to make the walk when others said it wasn\u2019t possible to make it on my own. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s something I\u2019ll bring back, but it definitely was interesting to see just how far I could get without a car.<\/p>\n

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Zac RichmanISA 2021Florence, ItalyAugust 7, 2021 My commute to class every day was filled with history that I sometimes ignored out of habit, as I became more familiar with the city. My bike ride from Via Venezia 2 to Via Ricasoli 21 became much more routine, after I learned to stop taking the bike down the 600 year old cobblestone roads. My bike was a rental I usually picked up from my walk to the city center, which I did most days. I had Florence to myself, until 3pm every day, so there was plenty of time to grab brunch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-3140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-summer","tag-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}