Italy, the Walk-a-Thon Continues
Seriously, folks — it’s been three days of walking, walking, walking, interspersed by looking at art, eating delicious food, and then more walking.
Here are some tidbits found along the way:
- Lampredotto is the upper part of a cow’s stomach, and it’s super-delicious. There’s a cart in the Oltrarno neighborhood that does it mighty fine. They also make a mean hamburger.
- We went looking for Galileo’s house in Arctri but couldn’t find it. We took comfort, though, in knowing that we walked the same paths and streets that he did. What we did find is the Nicaraguan consulate. Not that we were looking for it, but we just sort of ran across it in the middle of nowhere in the hills surrounding Florence.
- Michelangelo’s David has huge hands. Really. The museum was also exhibiting photography by Robert Mapplethorpe, which was strangely appropriate company for the David — something about the shape and lines of the human form I think.
- Florence is packed with tourists, especially around the central area. The same is true of Rome, but because that city is larger, it somehow seems to dilute the effect. In Florence, because they’re all concentrated around the Duomo, the city’s main attraction, the effect is amplified.
We continue to have a good time, and have taken to strolling around the city in the evenings once the press of tourists has died down. We’ve posted another slide show of our wanderings — it includes all of our photographs from Florence, Arcetri, and Siena to date. To view it, please click here.
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P.S. That first picture of the Duomo is the view from our window.








































