Sunday 16th July – Firenze (Florence)
After and unremarkable night we were up and ready for the arrival of J H-D at 07:45. We then set off for the bus stop and off into Florence. I have to say it was beautiful. The weather, the lack of people and the wonderful architecture, paintings and sculptures surpassed all expectations. The place was breathtaking. A day was nowhere near enough to do Florence but the boys did jolly well to last through six hours of culture including Michaelangelo’s David, several Piazzas, the Cathedral (and a walk of 414 steps up to the top of the tower), the Palazzo Veccio and the Ponte Veccio.
The Cathedral
Florence was beautiful and I just loved it. It was a gorgeous day and we even fell for the ultimate tourist gimic which was having cartoons drawn of the boys. Even though we managed to barter them down to 25% of the original cost it was still expensive but what the hell……
the boys having their cartoon sketch done
We returned from Florence by bus and went for a swim at the H-D’s B&B before heading out to dinner. Our plans for dinner in a vinyard half an hour away were scuppered when the taxi driver was going to charge us £70 each way! Not that it mattered as we had a lovely evening in Impruneta and racked up the bill with several bottles of wine justifiying it to ourselves by saying that it was the taxi fare!
Will sampling the local red……..
A late night, the second on the trot and the boys were beginning to show signs of cracking…..
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