FLORENCE -CITY OF HISTORY & MASTERPIECES
Next stop was Florence…
I’ve never been a huge fan of Florence. In fact last time I was here I complained this city smelled of piss and yes it does once again.
We jumped off the bus and followed Cabbage Patch through the narrow back streets filled with urine towards the main Florence square. It was a bit of a hike. I don’t remember walking this much last time with Cosmos.
Definitely a masterpiece to see in Florence. Leaving the Uffizi Gallery we headed towards the
I’ve never been a huge fan of Florence. In fact last time I was here I complained this city smelled of piss and yes it does once again.
We jumped off the bus and followed Cabbage Patch through the narrow back streets filled with urine towards the main Florence square. It was a bit of a hike. I don’t remember walking this much last time with Cosmos.
Streets of Florence
We were introduced to our local tour guide Nicky who lead us to the Uffizi Gallery where the famous statue of David is kept. We spent a good 20 minutes waiting in the sun queued up outside. Finally we were escorted into the gallery. We were told that no photos of video camering was allowed. Of course this didn’t stop me 3 years ago and this wasn’t going to stop me now. I successfully managed to capture photos of the statue from all sides. Nice work! Hi five to myself.
The David by Michelangelo
The Uffizi Gallery is not only the oldest art gallery in the world, it is the most important in Italy. The gallery owns over 4 800 art works of which only 2000 is on display.
Definitely a masterpiece to see in Florence. Leaving the Uffizi Gallery we headed towards the
Cathedral dedicated to Santa Maria del Fiore (St. Mary of the Flower).
Above Pic - The Facade of the Cathedral
The facade was designed by a 19th century architect, Emilio De Fabris, who tried to recapture the Florentine Gothic style. The project which he worked on until 1871 was completed by Luigi del Moro, who completed it in 1887.
The famous Door of Paradise, by Lorenzo Ghiberti
I can spend hours talking about each panel which features the creation of Adam & Eve, Story of Noah, Joshua, Moses, Abraham & Josephs but I wont bore you to deah...
Above Pic - The dome of the Cathedral
Following the Basilica was Sante Croce.
Once all the sightseeing was over Nicky escorted us to the main square Palazzo Vecchio (The old palace, previously known as Palazzo della Signoria) to admire all the statues.
The David
Once the entire Good Old Coas was over we stormed into the leather shop Perizzi for a leather demonstration. This was the quickest leather demonstrated in history. It took less than 3 minutes. It was almost like they couldn’t be bothered going into detail. I remember standing in the same store 3 years ago watching the demonstration for about 15 minutes. I guess they didn’t want to go into detail.
We had free time to shop in the leather store. I knew I wasn’t going to buy anything as I had been here 3 years ago and knew this place was expensive. They usually take you to the expensive stores where the guide also gets commission on goods sold.
Somewhere in between my wandering around the leather store Kath’s husband stopped to ask me a camera question. For some reason every one on tour thinks just because we have a digital SLR camera were professionals. His point and shoot only could store like 14 photos and he was stressing that it should be over a 100 as his previous card stored a whole lot more. I had to explain to him his other card had higher storage volume then his current one in the camera. For some reason this confused him more and at that time Lucy came strolling towards us and entered the conversation. Next thing you know Lucy decides to take over and tries explaining things to him. I gave up and walked off to shop upstairs. I had better things to do then be stuck there. I did 3 laps around the shop and Lucy was still standing there trying to explain things. So I pulled out my camera and took a photo of them before walking off again upstairs to spend some quality time watching Good Old shop.
I sat on the couches upstairs pointing my video camera at Good Old who was shopping by herself looking at shoes. The weird thing was she was talking to herself and the shoes. This was more amusing then Kath’s husband.
It was almost like watching a reality TV show. This went on for a while until Lucy wandered up and saw me watching Good Old. For some reason Lucy decided to set herself a mission of making Good Old purchase a pair of expensive shoes. I watched as she tried convincing Good Old for the next 15 minutes. It started to get a bit over rated so we decided to head off and wander the famous streets of Florence.We did a few laps around Florence taking random photo’s, purchasing postcards and water before heading to the meeting spot to be harassed by Asian scarf sellers. Cabbage Patch collected us from the meeting point and escorted us to the bus. We were finally heading to the hotel. The best part was we were staying at the Sheraton.
We jumped on the bus to be informed that our suitcases were already dropped off in our rooms and Cabbage Patch was coming around with our room keys. This was perfectly set as we were dead exhausted from all the sightseeing. It’s been a long day.
We arrived to the Sheraton to jump off the bus, collect hand luggage and head to our rooms. We had some free time to rest before our included dinner at the hotel. We managed to shower and watch some TV before heading to the hotel restaurant for our included buffet dinner.
Lucy insists on sitting at the table closest to the buffet. I’m in no state to argue as I’m starving. While sitting at our table deciding if we should order wine or not we have company asking if they can sit with us. Here we meet Tammy, her husband Joe and her daughter who we labeled Prisonbreak chick. We realized we had to socialize so we immediately ordered a bottle of wine.
One of the hotel waiters takes the stage and makes a nice speech welcoming us to the hotel and informing us that the buffet is now open. Lucy and I storm off our chairs as if the building is on fire. Were hungry ok. We were the first ones in line stacking our plates with salads and veggies as an opening.
It wasn’t until I had the lasagna that I realized I was in heaven. I have never in my life had anything like this. The lasagna was absolutely delicious. It’s funny how you never forget the taste of something so good. We made sure to go back for seconds and possibly thirds…
Random chit chat started around the table and Prisonbreak chick started asking us what US TV shows we had in Australia. Hence we discovered we both love Prisonbreak. Hence why we called her the Prisonbreak chick.
While our chit chat with the family of three was happening we had this random woman settling on a spare chair on our table. We had no idea who the fuck she was. It was a special guest appearance from Judy. At the time we had no idea who Judy was or whether she was even on our tour. She sat on our table, spoke a little, scoffed food down her throat and then stormed off. What the fuck? Someone pointed out she had a lost daughter in Florence. Well she wasn’t really lost. Her daughter was holidaying in Florence as well but Judy couldn’t get in touch with her or something.
Not that I gave a fuck by this stage. I was completely tanked from the bottle of wine. Lucy suggested we get up to go back to the room. We both got up and I swear the entire building swung around like a rollercoaster going twice the normal speed. I had no idea how we were going to manage to walk back to the room.
We eventually made it to the elevator when some random guy jumped in to join us. He started talking to us and I swear I didn’t catch a word, not because I was drunk but because of his accent. We just looked at him and nodded along. Lucy didn’t even recognize him but I had seen him stumble behind us in the sightseeing tours. At first we thought he was Irish but later found out his the Scottish woman’s husband.
The lift arrived on our floor and we all walked out. Scottish guy walked in one direction where as we walked towards the other. I turned around to ask Lucy what he said. She looked at me and said all I heard was something something short. Hence we spent the next 20 minutes in the hotel room laughing our heads off. Don’t ask…We were laughing so bad that I had to pull out my asthma spray. While I was trying to breathe Lucy screamed she wanted the asthma spray as well even though she doesn’t have asthma. Next thing you know Lucy can’t spray the bloody thing. Finally when she does she chokes into further laughter. I have nothing to say!
Above Pic - Facade of the Church of Santa Croce
Above Pic - Tombs of Michelangelo
We followed Nicky into the Church to admire the artwork. I suppose this is what I like about Florence – the artwork displayed is quite amazing.
This Church was built by a community of monks in 1228.
Following that I think we entered some Monstary:
Once all the sightseeing was over Nicky escorted us to the main square Palazzo Vecchio (The old palace, previously known as Palazzo della Signoria) to admire all the statues.
Above pic - The bronze equestrian monument to Cosimo I del Medici & The neptune Fountain
The DavidWe took several photos of the statues before leaving to head to the leather shop. We had to cut across a mime artist who had a huge crowd surrounding him. While half the tour group was avoiding him, Good Old threw herself at him. She went searching for him, in hope of becoming apart of the performance. The mime artist sees her as a volunteer and the next thing you know Good Old is in the arms of the mime artist. He successfully manages to pick her up and race off with her towards the crowd until he dumps her like a sack of potatoes on this old guy sitting down. Meanwhile poor Ron is chasing after them to take pictures while I’m video camering.
Good Old & Mime Artist
Once the entire Good Old Coas was over we stormed into the leather shop Perizzi for a leather demonstration. This was the quickest leather demonstrated in history. It took less than 3 minutes. It was almost like they couldn’t be bothered going into detail. I remember standing in the same store 3 years ago watching the demonstration for about 15 minutes. I guess they didn’t want to go into detail.
We had free time to shop in the leather store. I knew I wasn’t going to buy anything as I had been here 3 years ago and knew this place was expensive. They usually take you to the expensive stores where the guide also gets commission on goods sold.
Somewhere in between my wandering around the leather store Kath’s husband stopped to ask me a camera question. For some reason every one on tour thinks just because we have a digital SLR camera were professionals. His point and shoot only could store like 14 photos and he was stressing that it should be over a 100 as his previous card stored a whole lot more. I had to explain to him his other card had higher storage volume then his current one in the camera. For some reason this confused him more and at that time Lucy came strolling towards us and entered the conversation. Next thing you know Lucy decides to take over and tries explaining things to him. I gave up and walked off to shop upstairs. I had better things to do then be stuck there. I did 3 laps around the shop and Lucy was still standing there trying to explain things. So I pulled out my camera and took a photo of them before walking off again upstairs to spend some quality time watching Good Old shop.
I sat on the couches upstairs pointing my video camera at Good Old who was shopping by herself looking at shoes. The weird thing was she was talking to herself and the shoes. This was more amusing then Kath’s husband.
It was almost like watching a reality TV show. This went on for a while until Lucy wandered up and saw me watching Good Old. For some reason Lucy decided to set herself a mission of making Good Old purchase a pair of expensive shoes. I watched as she tried convincing Good Old for the next 15 minutes. It started to get a bit over rated so we decided to head off and wander the famous streets of Florence.We did a few laps around Florence taking random photo’s, purchasing postcards and water before heading to the meeting spot to be harassed by Asian scarf sellers. Cabbage Patch collected us from the meeting point and escorted us to the bus. We were finally heading to the hotel. The best part was we were staying at the Sheraton.
We jumped on the bus to be informed that our suitcases were already dropped off in our rooms and Cabbage Patch was coming around with our room keys. This was perfectly set as we were dead exhausted from all the sightseeing. It’s been a long day.
We arrived to the Sheraton to jump off the bus, collect hand luggage and head to our rooms. We had some free time to rest before our included dinner at the hotel. We managed to shower and watch some TV before heading to the hotel restaurant for our included buffet dinner.
Lucy insists on sitting at the table closest to the buffet. I’m in no state to argue as I’m starving. While sitting at our table deciding if we should order wine or not we have company asking if they can sit with us. Here we meet Tammy, her husband Joe and her daughter who we labeled Prisonbreak chick. We realized we had to socialize so we immediately ordered a bottle of wine.
One of the hotel waiters takes the stage and makes a nice speech welcoming us to the hotel and informing us that the buffet is now open. Lucy and I storm off our chairs as if the building is on fire. Were hungry ok. We were the first ones in line stacking our plates with salads and veggies as an opening.
It wasn’t until I had the lasagna that I realized I was in heaven. I have never in my life had anything like this. The lasagna was absolutely delicious. It’s funny how you never forget the taste of something so good. We made sure to go back for seconds and possibly thirds…
Random chit chat started around the table and Prisonbreak chick started asking us what US TV shows we had in Australia. Hence we discovered we both love Prisonbreak. Hence why we called her the Prisonbreak chick.
While our chit chat with the family of three was happening we had this random woman settling on a spare chair on our table. We had no idea who the fuck she was. It was a special guest appearance from Judy. At the time we had no idea who Judy was or whether she was even on our tour. She sat on our table, spoke a little, scoffed food down her throat and then stormed off. What the fuck? Someone pointed out she had a lost daughter in Florence. Well she wasn’t really lost. Her daughter was holidaying in Florence as well but Judy couldn’t get in touch with her or something.
Not that I gave a fuck by this stage. I was completely tanked from the bottle of wine. Lucy suggested we get up to go back to the room. We both got up and I swear the entire building swung around like a rollercoaster going twice the normal speed. I had no idea how we were going to manage to walk back to the room.
We eventually made it to the elevator when some random guy jumped in to join us. He started talking to us and I swear I didn’t catch a word, not because I was drunk but because of his accent. We just looked at him and nodded along. Lucy didn’t even recognize him but I had seen him stumble behind us in the sightseeing tours. At first we thought he was Irish but later found out his the Scottish woman’s husband.
The lift arrived on our floor and we all walked out. Scottish guy walked in one direction where as we walked towards the other. I turned around to ask Lucy what he said. She looked at me and said all I heard was something something short. Hence we spent the next 20 minutes in the hotel room laughing our heads off. Don’t ask…We were laughing so bad that I had to pull out my asthma spray. While I was trying to breathe Lucy screamed she wanted the asthma spray as well even though she doesn’t have asthma. Next thing you know Lucy can’t spray the bloody thing. Finally when she does she chokes into further laughter. I have nothing to say!
Once we settled down we turned on the TV to some ridiculous movie with some random guy sitting on his bed with a fish in his ass. No idea what that was about. This followed with some random chick in the supermarket bleeding to death from her periods. I still don’t understand the movie but it was entertaining. It gives me ideas for HI.
Before we crashed for the night it was time to send Cherry a nice postcard of David’s cock…. The first of many to come….
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