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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 ...
Best of Tuscany - Lunch & San Gimignano
We leave Siena make our way toward San Gimignano but before we et there we stop at a slow food farm for lunch. The farm is Fattoria Poggio Alloro. They create 8 different wines from they vineyard on the property. They have their own beehive for making honey, rows and rows of olive trees for making their signature olive oils, wheat for making their own organic pastas and bread, and of course they own vegetables and figs. We start off with a tour of ...
The Fool on the Hill
... and for the first time during my visit, there is an unobscured view of the well in the centre of the square. Since I arrived yesterday, the steps around the well have been crowded with people sitting, eating ice cream, drinking or being photographed. As I find an angle to take a photograph that will exclude the female form who is standing to one side, photographing the buildings, I realise the form belongs to Helen, who is entirely alone. She's a ...
Italian drivers are crazy!
... of history. Not much was happening directly inside the walls, the buildings looked a little run down but there was a Saturday market going on where Jodes bough some socks and we bought some fruit for a mid morning snack. To get to the interesting and attractive things in Lucca you need to head towards the centre of town. The main shopping streets were bustling with people and were quite attractive (as were the sales that are still happening). We wandered around looking at ...
Happy Birthday ME!!!
... would be, another long dirt road lay before me. In my head i said, "well i came this far it has to be up here," so i kept on trecking. Another 10 minutes and i made it to a smal clearing where i saw about 5 campers and a large yellow italian style building. I walked around the side and found a small doorway that led to a rather large open garden with a fountain in the middle. It was beautiful!!! i walked up the porch overlooking the fantastic view of the ...
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