We decided to leave today rather than tomorrow morning. We left early and stopped in Florence. (Firenze). My least favoured place apart from Bologne which was day 1.
A tourist place - to the extreme ... vendors everywhere outside all the monuments - multpile vendors ... keyrings and leather belts from china, nigerians hawking faux leather handbags and posters of famous artworks outside the uffitzi gallery, painters from naieve through realism to abstract and many portrait artists doing 'you' in pencil and charcoal.
The vendors continue throughout the city along the ponti vechio bridge lined with silver and gold jewellery shops.
lunch was a disappointment and shameful for Italy based on what we have experienced so far. The gnocchi was not hand made and they dished it up in bottled tomatoe sauce and a busker was making a nuisance of himself playing the accordian and when one customer paid him some attention he did a musical number and then went through the whole restaurant (which was an outdoor under cover restaurant on the piazza opposite the uffitzi gallery) asking every person for money for listening to the music. and and and .... We told him no.
We took photos of the statues and stopped enroute to home to have dinner - home at 10pm, showered and two episodes of 'Thank God You're Here' which Jon had downloaded and we slept until 11am Sunday morning.
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