Non Giro Stuff and Things

Today was Sean's day, Giro day!

We kicked off fairly early to a little town called Ponte A Ema, the 11th stage of the Giro.  You'll have to read Sean's blog post about this one for the details.  Needless to say, it was brilliant seeing a little town get ready for probably the biggest highlight of its calendar year.  Pink pink pink was all you saw (pink is the leaders jersey apparently),  the town's population swelled to new heights and the excitement in the atmosphere was all consuming.  But enough on that, like I said you will have to read Sean's post.  I also filmed Sean driving out of Firenze so you can see what the traffic is like at 8.00 am.  Please excuse the weird noises, it's me freaking out!!

After the Giro we headed back to Firenze for a quick rest and over to the Galleria de Acadamia to see David, or so we thought.  Not only did we get lost, when we finally found it, the line outside was ridiculous and it was 4.00pm in the afternoon.  We were offered immediate entry for 25 euro each which we rejected as the normal entry is just 8 euro each.  We are going to try again tomorrow but this time we will be there when it opens.

Even though we did get lost, we managed to find the  Duomo, a magnificent intricately sculptured church that is absolutely breathtaking.  The sheer size of the building has to be seen to be believed. You'll see by the photos but they don't do justice to its enormity.

We also found a great local market near the railway station.  Heaps of stalls selling mostly leather goods (bags bags bags), clothes, ceramics and more bags. My joke to Sean lately has been that because I love Italy so much when we get home I was going to render the front of the house and paint it orange, put a few geranium filled pots around the front patio, place a few roman statues in the front garden and put a tiled No. 5 on the front of the house.  Well I found my No. 5 at these markets and I will be putting it on the front of the house!!  Our little piece of Firenze in Albany Creek.

Tomorrow we are off to try and see David and then onto Milan for 4 nights.  It is sad to say goodbye to Florence, it is a lot quieter than Rome and a little more homely.  3 days was definitely not enough to see all her treasures (even though we crammed in quite a lot) so hopefully we will be back again one day.

Oh and I have become quite fond of our doll house room complete with weird smell and street view.... but the statue outside still gives me the creeps.  We filmed it so you can see what lies outside our door because seriously, seeing is believing.


Lorraine & Sean

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