Podere il Poggiolo
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We're in Tuscany now...Ahhhhh
It's almost midnight but we are here:
Pisa Saturday
Florence Sunday (with Church at St. James Episcopal Church...google it)
Monday: Slept in and went to Raddi in Chianti for a fabulous dinner
Tuesday: Assissi
Wednesday: Still pondering.
Hannah has some kind of bite on the back of her right leg. It is huge and red. We're …
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 9: Florence
... rest of the group and all went into Santa Maria Novella, which was unbelievable. A 13-century church built on a 10-century cemetery and site, it housed original paintings on which Michelangelo worked, and stained glass windows, frescos, sculptures and tombs from the 11-16 centuries. Just fascinating. Afterward, we ate dinner on the piazza then headed back to the apartment to relax for the rest of the evening. Another Florentine day ...
Pontassieve
... making our stay more like a home away from home , very civilised and convenient as this allows us the ability to interact with the locals shopping as they do, just like we did in Menaggio. It was not long before we found our feet and our bearings , locating the supermarket and the wine shop as well as the bakery all the things that sustain life. We also found and visited several markets where our eyes are bigger than our bellies; we had a hard time to not buy everything ...
Firenze! Sydford runs into ANOTHER festival!
... in the middle of the square. After this we decided to see some other piazzas around town, ran into another market, saw some more churches and wound up back at the Duomo. Since we could not climb the giant dome to get a view of the city, we did the next best thing which was to climb the giant bell tower right beside the Duomo. Space was extremely limited walking up, and the staircases were hot, and the stairs just kept going and going and going. ...
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