Hi Everyone. Last night I experimented with some night photography on the cruise ships we could see from our camp site. One of the photos came out quite well.
We are now in Florence camped in a delightful spot among the trees at Camp Michaelangelo, from which it is a very pleasant 10 minute walk down the hill to central Florence. It’s a somewhat longer walk back up the hill but there is a bus which we are yet to work out where to catch. We have tickets for the bus but couldn’t find it. We survived the walk back up and it is probably better for us.
Hidden among the trees in the foreground is our campsite.
We got away to an early start this morning (8:30) and spent a couple of hours on the motorway to get here.
This afternoon we checked out Ponte Vecchio, Florence’s oldest bridge with its very impressive array of goldsmith’s shops. Given that I have already bought Trish’s birthday present at the Murano glass factory, we couldn’t afford to buy any gold products.
From there, we went to Palazzo Vecchio to see how the Medici family lived in the fifteenth century after which we found ourselves at the Cathedral, the world’s fourth largest, completely covered on the outside with green, white and pink marble. What was particularly interesting was what has been unearthed underneath the cathedral, previous churches on the same site dating back to Roman times.
We hope to master the bus system tomorrow so that we don’t have to walk up the hill again. We will spend the day exploring Florence and stay here tomorrow night. We then have to decide whether to go back to Rome via Sienna or Assisi.
We won’t have time to do both unless we hurry and we have forgotten how to do that. I suspect it will be Assisi. It looks quieter and is closer to Rome.
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