Month: November 2017

Toby’s take on Florence, Part the 1st

Florence is busy. More so then Venice. Not sure I’d want to be here in the high tourist season when it’s 1) hot and 2) has a fuckton more people. But, on to the pictures… Outside the Uffitzi museum. More perspective stuff. Outside the Palazzo Vecchio. For the gamers – this tower is a synchronization…

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Here’s a surprising thing…

…turns out, I don’t like Florence that much. It’s just too much. Too big, too busy, too full of people, and this is the off season. I can only imagine the hellscape that it is during high season.

Final Venice Pictures (from Toby)

From the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, on the isle of the same name: I like light. And perspective. In what I assume to be the apse, where the choir resides: Up the nearby belltower, facing SW-ish: On the train to Florence (the window was filthy – that’s not a filter) The bridge from Venice:…

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Question of the day

Toby and I have been wondering how many phones you can find at the bottom of the Venetian canals.

So, remember those bubbles?

Back during the Japan trip I had this app from bubb.li that allowed me to take 3D photos (called ‘bubbles’) of a space. I still have that app. Here’s a bubble of the fabulous apartment with the FANTABULOUS view across the Venetian lagoon that we’re in, taken at juuuust the right time of day to…

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Random Photos from Ravenna

We detoured a bit today and left Venice for Ravenna to the SW. Three hour train ride with one change, which was only annoying for the last 45min of the ride back. A few snaps I took: Space Invader Rebel Scum have invaded Ravenna! (This showed up a few times around town, as did “No…

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And one more thing

Many restrooms in train stations in Italy are pay toilets—you pay 1 euro or so for access. (One in Mexico I went to did it one better: access was free but you paid a few pesos for a handful of toilet paper!) The station in Ravenna was no different. However, it had been built with…

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