Florence day 3
Trip Start
Jul 31, 2007
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4
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Trip End
Sep 05, 2007
Florence,
Italy
Friday, August 3, 2007
On the agenda today was a chill out in Giardino di Boboli as I didn't fancy the prospect of going back into the city, and I liked the idea of taking a mosey through some Italian plants. It was defo a good choice, I found a sweet spot near a big pond with fountains, and relaxed on a cool stone bench in the shade, lovely stuff. One of the special exhibitions on was a recreated Pompei garden, but it was a bit rubbish really, just looked like a row of weeds. I sat in the sun and scoffed my lunch then headed indoors to the Garden exhibition - basically detailing Babylon through to Roman gardens, and it was surprisingly quite interesting
Keep off the grass in gardens?!
.After chilling out in the gardens for the best part of the day, I headed slowly back up to the campsite, stopping to say hello to a lovely Italian cat half way up the million stairs. God knows how many steps I've climbed in the last few days, I wish I'd gone on the ruddy stair master at the gym to get in some training.
Ok, so here are my impressions of Firenze: lots of nice architecture but very touristy, the Boboli gardens are lovely but a bit pricey at €9, and you can't sit on the grass... I'm defo glad I went into the Ufizi gallery, but wish I had queued for the cathedral.... also, I don't know why I had it in mind that there would be more domes in the city, I could only see 2. I don't think I would really go back to Firenze, not for 3 nights anyways. I could probably have stayed for 2 nights and been happy with that. There, my 2 cents worth.
