We Heart Holidays - Florence, four Italian chefs for a night!

We had some of our best holiday experiences in Florence, and our pizza and gelato making class (Giovanni's Italian Cooking Class by Food & Wine Academy of Florence) was one of them. This turned out way more fun than we had anticipated, and the kids had as much a good time as us adults, if not more!  The chefs were awesome in engaging the kids - Wayne had a blast participating, even teaching the class how to count from one to ten in Mandarin as he helped the chef add flour into the mixing bowl. As for Amanda, she was happy just playing with the dough (= playdoh) with her bare hands, and of course, the idea of chocolate ice-cream at the end of the class was enough to keep her excited throughout the class.  

So thumbs up for this activity, especially if you are traveling with kids, as there really aren't that many kids centric activities in Italy. It was also a nice way to spend our night, as you'd come to realise that with kids, nights post dinner are usually spent in the hotel room. The pizza that we made was also our dinner, so one tip if you are opting for the evening class, which starts at 6pm and lasts over three hours, is to feed your kids before the class cos by the time our pizzas were ready it was close to 9pm and the kids were starving. Thankfully, the chefs had some yummy Italian biscotti to fill their growling tummies as they waited for their pizza. 

At Euro 120 for us four, the experience was well worth it - they even awarded us with certificates at the end of the class, which thrilled Wayne to bits. We had so much fun, we left the session on a high - happy, satisfied and with the husband commenting that we should leave a feedback on TripAdvisor for the two wonderful chefs!