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Day 10: Florence
... of Michelangelo, Galileo, Niccolo Medicci and Dante, as well as works by Donatello. On our way there, we walked through a little alleyway where school children were being let out for the day and families were there picking them up (no one was in a car; everyone walked or rode bikes). It was a very cute, Italian, everyday scene, and we enjoyed watching it unfold. All the parents picking up their kids had some kind of snack for them -- that must be some kind of tradition or regular ...
Day 60 - Pinzani sheep cheese factory
... garlic.
It was explained that when you eat cheese and salami you should take it out of the fridge at least 2-3 hours before you eat it to get the full effect of the aroma and flavour.
After that was explained we began smelling the cheese and you could certainly detect different aromas coming for each.
After going through all the cheese's (and the samples were all big) we chose a Classico which had been aged for a year and some salami ...
Day 48 - Casole d Elsa
... to be the most substantial meal we have had so far, and we didn’t get to choose what we wanted to eat, so we were a bit baffled by the whole affair. On our way back to our villa Mike found the owner to find out exactly what it was all about, and it turned out that she had wanted to shout us our final meal – not that we were to have dinner with her. Which was a lovely gesture – all we had to cover were the ...
Day 42 - Deiva Marina - Casole d Elsa (via Pisa)
... to the pool. We limited them to about an hour, and then set off to try and buy some groceries for our week here. On our first attempt we took the car, only to find that only residents cars are permitted into the centre of the village, and the public parking places were barely closer than the car park at the villa. So we took the car back and set off on our second attempt on foot. We were barely at the end of the driveway when grey clouds, which had been rolling in decided to open ...
The Statue of David
I had little planned for my third day of exploring Florence. The cathedral wasn't open the first time I visited it, so I wanted to go back and make sure I didn't miss anything. But the main and most anticipated part of my day was entering the Galleria dell'Accedemia where the famous and very real Statue of David was held. I had read online that waiting in line to get into this museum was horrendous, so I made sure to go there first.
I ended up in another museum, but ...
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