Gusta Pizza, located across the river in Florence, is hands down the best pizza I've had yet. I've heard about it from girls back home, and we decided to walk there on Valentine's day to treat ourselves to individual pizzas.
We arrive at Gusta and it is packed. No tables are open, line out the door waiting for take out, and it's mostly groups of girls.... go figure. We get to the counter to check out the menu. I order the Calabrese; spicy salami, mozzarella, tomatoes, and arugala. The girls get Margherita and Caprese. We wait at the counter watching the cooks put in and take out pizzas from the brick pizza oven. The ingredients are so fresh, and the pizzas were done in literally less than 10 minutes. They made our pizzas into a heart-shape, boxed them up, and we took them to go.
Wanting to eat them right away, we walked back to the river and decided to sit on the Ponte all Carraia (a bridge on the Arno passed the Ponte Vecchio).
The pizza was amazing. American pizza has nothing on Italian pizza. It was great.
We sat and talked, laughed, and reminisced about our time here so far.
Three random roommates arrived in Italy at the beginning of January, immediately becoming very good friends. A month later we were sitting on the Arno River in Florence, eating our own heart-shaped pizza, acting like we've known each other for the last 15 years of our lives. If this isn't a dream come true, I am not sure what is...
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