Florence

Type of Programme
One-to-one, personalised Italian tuition living full-board with the tutor's own family and in the tutor's own home, including local visits and excursions, meeting friends, neighbours and professional colleagues etc.

Type of House: Apartment - Italy

Teaching Qualifications and Experience

I have a Master's Degree and I worked as Italian Teacher for about 8 years. I worked for about a year as Italian language Teacher in Bournemouth in England and then for about two years in Florence. Three months ago, I came back to Florence from Japan where I spent last 3/4 years working at a Primary International School in Chiba as Homeroom Teacher, at a Language School in Chiba (Juku) as Italian and English Teacher and at a Corporation in Tokyo as Italian and English Teacher. Besides, I have always taught Italian privatly.

Hobbies and Interests

My hobbies are cooking, wine tasting and sampling of food, travelling, reading, watching movies, skiing, swimming,ecc...
I have many interests. Recently, I am very interested in Interior Design.

Accommodation

It is actually a very nice, neat, cosy, fully and well furnished studio flat composed by a bright sunny bedroom with a double bedroom or twin beds, bathroom with bathtub/shower and a little kitchen.

Excursions and Local Attractions

My apartment is opposite Pitti Palace and Boboli Garden, 2 minutes on foot from Old Bridge and Uffizi Gallery, 5 minutes from Old Palace, 5/10 from Duomo, 5/10 from S. Croce, 5 minutes from Brancacci Chapel and Carmine Church, 15/20 minutes from Michelangelo Square, etc. There are lots of restaurants and very nice shops around here. Just in front of the maindoor of the building where the apartment is located there is the bus stop of bus "D" and "C3" for means of which one can reach to the station in 10 minutes and other very famous places. There is a supermarket at 2 minutes on foot and a bank at a 1 minute.
From Florence to the Chianti area takes just about 20/30 minutes by car and an hour by bus.
From Florence to Rome it takes one and half hours by Eurostar and about two hours to Venice and Milan. It takes an hour by train to Pisa and an hour by bus to Siena and S. Gimignano. There are really lots of very beautifull places to visit around here.