Into Florence
Ciao ancora! I'm in Florence now at an internet site. We left the villa today and dropped off our van and are now urban residents in an apartment in Florence. From the country life to the city life.
Last week was another busy week. I did send a blog entry but it seems to have gotten lost somewhere. Sorry about that.
The highlight last week was a visit to Pisa, the home of the leaning tower. It is indeed leaning, I'm happy to report. Pisa was a confusing town. The least well marked city we've been in. And there's really nothing to see there except the tower, the Duomo and the baptistry, which are all grouped together on the campo di miracle (the Field of Miracles). We didn't have time to climb the tower but did enjoy going into the Duomo (the cathedral) and the baptistry. Both are beautiful and are from the 12th century (if I remember correctly). The acoustics in the baptistry are spectacular. At one point the guard came in and sang some notes, the echo harmonizing with herself. It was amazing.
All of our guests have left except for one who is now just a fellow traveller! So it's just the four of us--Marilyn, Allen, Jaydee (Marilyn's longtime friend) and me. We have a three-bedroom garden apartment near to Santa Croce, one of the big churches in town. It should be a good week.
The four weeks at the villa seem to have flown by. I'm amazed that the time is up already. I'm happy to be rid of the big 9-passenger van that we were driving as it's pretty useless to us in the city here. We'll take buses and walk a lot.
I hope I can get on one more time and I'll try to figure out in the meantime what happened to my last blog.
Ciao, Gerry
Last week was another busy week. I did send a blog entry but it seems to have gotten lost somewhere. Sorry about that.
The highlight last week was a visit to Pisa, the home of the leaning tower. It is indeed leaning, I'm happy to report. Pisa was a confusing town. The least well marked city we've been in. And there's really nothing to see there except the tower, the Duomo and the baptistry, which are all grouped together on the campo di miracle (the Field of Miracles). We didn't have time to climb the tower but did enjoy going into the Duomo (the cathedral) and the baptistry. Both are beautiful and are from the 12th century (if I remember correctly). The acoustics in the baptistry are spectacular. At one point the guard came in and sang some notes, the echo harmonizing with herself. It was amazing.
All of our guests have left except for one who is now just a fellow traveller! So it's just the four of us--Marilyn, Allen, Jaydee (Marilyn's longtime friend) and me. We have a three-bedroom garden apartment near to Santa Croce, one of the big churches in town. It should be a good week.
The four weeks at the villa seem to have flown by. I'm amazed that the time is up already. I'm happy to be rid of the big 9-passenger van that we were driving as it's pretty useless to us in the city here. We'll take buses and walk a lot.
I hope I can get on one more time and I'll try to figure out in the meantime what happened to my last blog.
Ciao, Gerry
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