Heading up to Florence was interesting - Busabout schedules several "bonus stops" along interesting routes, and we managed to take in Perugia (home of Baci chocolate) and San Gimignano (purportedly home to the world's best gelati ice-cream). My stomach therefore became home to a number of tasty treats over the course of the day and my belly will no doubt become home to a goodly proportion of unsightly flab. Indulgence is king, my friends. Florence itself was fantastic too, if a little rushed (apologies Bart!). I managed to beat the queues at the Accademia to see Michelangelo's "David" (they don't call it the world's best sculpture for nothing) and the Duomo too, but decided to pass on the Uffizi Gallery (my tolerance for Renaissance art beginning to reach its threshold) in favour of a nice stroll around the Boboli Gardens. A few of us took a day trip to Siena too - the Festival of Saint Catherine was just kicking in, so there was much bunting, flags and rowdy Italian street dining in that particular contrade. The Siennese(?) Duomo was spectacular too - lacking the wonderful cuppola frescos of Florence's, but making up for it in its liquorice-allsort-striped marble interior. Tuscany on the whole was brilliant ... rolling green hills, blue skies, narrow cobbled streets and a laid-back, enjoy-your-life atmosphere which you wish you could bottle up and take home with you. Not that we Kiwis necessarily do such things badly of course :o)
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