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The Accademia Gallery
Today we sashayed into the Accademia Gallery. I just love the Uffuzi card – waiting in line is no way to spend your vacation. This is a much smaller showing of incredible art but no less spectacular....
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Piazza, Ponte Vecchio, Pitti Palace
Sunday we decided to play gladiators and see if we could get killed. By ourselves. Let’s do three times the activity in one day so far and see what happens. That would be me finally catching hubby...
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Now where were we?
Ah yes, about to explore the delights of Ponte Vecchio. How could I forget? After the delightful Piazza, how could we be prepared for the infusion of energy, light, humanity, and ouch! The glare of the...
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The Pitti Palace
Coming out on the other side of the Ponte Vecchio is the Pitti Palace. At first glance it seemed a little dismal but the interior more than made up for it. Alas, again photos are not permitted. This...
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The Duomo – Part I
How I missed posting on this earlier I’ll never know. The first evening we arrived guess what we saw out of our kitchen window? Yes, it’s the top of the Duomo all lit up. How did we get so lucky? The...
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The Duomo Part II
So here are a few pictures of “Under the Duomo” all of which are labeled in Italiano so I have no clue what they really are. I do however have a skewed sense of humor, so while I mean no disrespect to...
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Could it be a Sign?
Sorry I’ve been absent but that little bug that hubby adopted early on in our trip decided to jump ship and landed on me. At first he was quite polite but by the time we started home he gleefully...
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Drinking and Driving…..
No, this is not what you think. Not irresponsible, not a recommendation, but separately, and carefully, ….fun! Read on: If you’ve been following this blog you know that we rented an incredible...
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So then……
Where to start, where to start…okay how about this. Thank you to all the people and bloggers that read my last post “Driving & Driving”. It was my second most read post and for this rookie I am...
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Guess who’s going to Florence? (Part One)
And has returned!!!! Way back at the beginning of this blog when we were in the planning phase, our very dear friends were going to make the trip with us. Unfortunately, this didn’t turn out to be the...
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