Tina (No Facilities) Florence

... dans les jardins!

ensuite on est aller voir le vrai "David" de michealange. installer au bout d,un aller d'un petit muse au gros prix! c'est impressionant de voir sa grandeur et surtout de penser qu'il a ete realise dans un seul bloc de marbre, sculte a la main avec les outils de l'epoque. Comme dans tout bon muse, il est impossible prendre des photos!

... pesto and vegetables) while Murray had large, flat-noodled pasta with wild board sauce (he was even feeling well enough for a beer – woo-hooo!).

After lunch, when we reached the Piazza del Duomo and saw the Duomo (cathedral) itself, we were duly impressed. The Duomo has a dramatic exterior – red-tiled dome, and pink, white, and green marbled façade – making it Florence’s most iconic landmark. Begun in 1296 and taking ...

... pour nous, au village , il y a une cantine!! un endroit ou l'on peu deguster du vin toute l'annee. Dans une ambiance de cave a vin, il y a des machines distributrices d'echantillion de vin. Entre 0.60 et 6.00 euro l'echantillion! De cette facon, nous avons pus gouter a une vingtaines de bouteilles de la region.
Il y avait meme une degustation d'huile d'olive et emilie n'a pu s'empecher d'en achter une petite bouteille!

partie de pise pour se rendre a Florence en toscane. On s'approche tranquillement de la region de Chianti ! Encore uen ville magnifique ou l'on ne peut pratiquement rien prendre en phtoto tellement les rues sont etroites. Le duomo, le 3e plus haut de l'europe est visible de tres loin. Ensuite, de piazza en piazza, nous avons traverser la ville pour voir des tres grand edifice , souvent construit avant meme la decouverte de l'amerique!! Nous avons ...

... like well just take it then! So i got a free pear from the fruit shop! Then I went in the other day to get salad and they were giving away free Leche Pascal milk jugs. So I have gotten free milk and a pear from this fruit shop that I now love because everything is so fresh!

Ok back to florence. So I arrived about 20 minutes late and the flight was so funny. I think the captain had a few drinks before he flew the plane (Miguel and Grampy is this common?) Anyway ...

... as Israeli, and in jars they are always pitted. Be careful -
on pizza they sometimes put the unpitted ones.



Museums, no matter how good they must be, seemed a little overpriced
for us, so we visited only Ufizzi gallery - which was more than enough
art to last for at least next year for me. ;) We regretted to not have
skipped through all the secular stuff in the first rooms to have
enjoyed more general art. Of course, Michelangelo, The birth of Venus ...

... portraits of Giotto and Brunelleschi. Later in the 19th century, busts were added of Arnolfo di Cambio, the original cathedral designer, and Emilio De Fabris, the 19th century exterior designer. Adorning the interior walls of the dome, 295 feet into the air is Vasari's "Last Judgment" which was ordered by Cosimo de Medici. Brace yourself, the painting is 295 feet away and neck strain is inevitable but worth it nonetheless. The artist ...

... healthy meal at Macca's. The leaning tower was fun to visit, but there are so many tourists it is unbelievable. We stayed for all of an hour, got the picture looked about at everyone else getting a picture and left. The drive on to The Cinque Terre region was unremarkable and long, and by the time we arrived at Moneglia, where we were staying we were both exhausted. It is a beautiful area though and the camp site was in a fantastic place ...

Florence was one of my favorite places we visited, not so much because of any of the sightseeing but because we had a fantastic time just meandering around the city, eating gelato at every turn, enjoying a leisurely lunch along the Arno river, sampling olives and wine at a tiny gourmet shop...of course, the Duomo and David were impressive, but it was the little things that I will always remember about Florence.