For those of you who know my Facebook page; you will be pleased to know that 80+ photographs have been uploaded to a new Album – Italy 2010.
It was hard to trump the great day that we had yesterday. The restaurant
Trattoria Celestino at P.zza S. Felicita 4/R Firenze was stunning. It came recommended by the one of the Hotel employees who found us sat down resting in that quarter of the City during the early evening. What a lovely man to cross the road and engage us in conversation, check that we were ok and give us good advice. I have former employees who cross the road to avoid me. Worse still, they crossed the road when I worked with them. But many of my friends say that their behaviour says more about them than me. Good friendship is important, and I would rather have my 20 good friends than several hundred false friends.
Good friendship is like a good wine – you simply don’t mind what price you pay. Pauline spent last night writing out postcards. It’s a tradition with us, even with the Internet and mobile messaging. It may arrive late, but you can’t beat a good postcard with old news. It’s about the time and effort that you took in hunting out the card, expressing yourself in words, and then finding a post office. This of course is not a small task for someone when they are in a foreign country. Especially when you don’t know the language and you don’t know the post office sign.
My main postcard is for the gang in the kitchen where I used to work. The next one is for a FIDE International Chess Player, friend and drinking partner. Several postcards are for the girls and there are the postcards that Pauline has written. If you are not on the list, then don’t panic as this is a three week tour. I found the tobacconist selling stamps easy enough and we made the Number 14 bus into the city. We hopped off and straight onto the
Number 7 bus and went up into the mountains to
Fiesole for coffee, cake and the view.
When we got back to Firenze I popped in to see the
Caravaggio exhibition while Pauline watched the world go by in
Piazza Bella Signoria.
European touring important points:Hot climate = frequent change of clothes
Bring some clothes washing liquid with you like we do
£500 would buy 480 Euro in the UK but only 425 Euro in Florence
Today’s important points were:The Hotel kept Pauline away from the Croissants
Can you blame them?
The Tourist Bus all the way to the community of FIESOLE takes the same route as the bus that we sat on
There is more than one bar in Fiesole so you don’t have to go to the expensive one
Fiesole is a historic site
