I don’t see what all the fuss is about, really.
Category: Switzerland/Italy 2017
We hit a few museums yesterday.
The Academia, Bargello, and Uffizi. Today our wanderings pretty much had one rule: no art. But that’s another post.
Dear internet
Today we saw a bee.
“So what was your favorite meal in Florence?”
Well so far, the stand-out winner (not counting two fucking AWESOME gelato places) is Biancorosso (literally white-red). Their site seems to be down, yo, but this place is…Japanese.
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…
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:…
I am Officially Old
This offends the hell out of me.
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…