This is a fantastic town! Rome was great for the significant sites to see there, but overall, it had that rushed, big city feel. While Florence isn't a 'small town' (pop. 350,000 give or take) it has much more of a quieter, small town feel, not to mention some great historical and architectural sites in its own right!
Yesterday, we (oh yeah, I did manage to meet up with Jen and her cousins, btw. They all say 'hi') climbed the Duomo (dome of the cathederal)--a mere 466 steps compared to the 550+ of St. Peters. Then a quick stop at San Croce, another cathederal, which just happens to also have inside it, within a couple dozen yards of each other, the final resting places of Galilleo, Michaelangelo, Dante and Machiavelli, among others!
In the afternoon, we hopped a train for a quick side-trip over to Pisa. Aside from the leaning tower, and the piazza and cathederal near it, there's not too much else in that town, though the main street up towards the piazza from the train station has a sort of dingy, creepy but cool feel that I have always imagined New Orleans to be like. (Who would've guessed I'd see Pisa before seeing the French Quarter?).
Today I'm hoping to catch the Uffuzi Gallery and the Gallerie dell'Acadamia, which houses Michaelangelo's David. But first I need to spend some time figuring out where I'm going tomorrow.
I think I'm going to head up to Munich for a few days before heading back down to Venice on Saturday. Although Dad just forwarded me a new travel alert for threats against US interests in Germany. Great. We'll see what the train schedules and costs are going to be first, but if I head up there, I'll be going with great caution.
More when I can...
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Hey Tris! It's San Jose. ARGGGHHHH! Wear your red and white and keep your fingers crossed!
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