we took a walking tour of florence yesterday morning, seeing all the medici palaces and the OTHER palaces where they used to hide their mistresses...also the tiny wine and bread doors that used to be used to combat the spread of germs...and the medici walkway that they used because they were too important to walk on the streets with the common folk...
and then we saw boticelli. and michealangelo. as a complete renaissance nerd, i was simply amazed by seeing the birth of venus up close, and to walk through rooms at the uffuzi and literally see all the 2dimensional madonnas suddenly have cheekbones, and expressions, and life. oh man. art hangover.
and real hangover. we found an irish bar near our hostel, and the bartender is from WA...he gave us a great recommendation for a restaurant where i had spaghetti with fresh mozzerella and carrie had ravioli, and we both had chianti...and then we went back for some good galway style snakebites.
ok, another tour this morning...more art! hooray renaissance! so far florence kicks venices ass.
ugh, the lack of punctuation is killing me here. i cant make the keyboard do what i want it to.
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