Wow today was a busy day. We started at the Uffizi gallery. It was enjoyable probably because it was not busy yet. There were many pieces of great artwork but there were no single show stoppers. So it was enjoyable but I don’t think I would put it in the must do category that most people have it in. I think Trapper agrees. Then we went to city hall. It was a cool quasi castle kind of thing with a big audience hall but not totally my cup of tea. We then went...

Today we had an early start 815am at the academia. We saw David. I have to admit I was underwhelmed. He is very large but he is not well proportioned and his head is not well formed if you asked me. I did like the prisoners, also by Michelangelo. They really do look like they are breaking out of the marble. By the time 845 rolled around it was starting to get too crowded for our tastes and we took our leave. We checked out the basilica of the annunciation. We wa...

Wow we had a big day today. We left Venice on a 10am train to Florence. We then got the tickets we needed for the next 5 days in Florence. We moved into our Florence apartment which seems very nice. I even unpacked my bag completely. Oh and most importantly we turned on the ac so it will be beautiful when we get home. Then around 130 we headed out. We went back to the train station and hopped a train for Pisa. It’s only About an hour away and all the must se...

So today we went to the frairi basilica first thing in the morning. It was a large stark church without too much decorations but there were a number of giant tombs and quite a number of chapels. Trapper really liked the whole thing particularly the exposed bricks. I really like St. John the Baptist sculpture by donetello. It was more likely what he would have looked like when you consider his poverty. We also stepped inside the lobby of scula san rocco. We deci...

Thirteen hours of sleep later we are both back on our feet. Trapper was quick to point out she was awake for an hour in the night. So i guess 12-13 hours sleep. I nearly forgot it seems like every church bell in town was ringing around 630-7pm. Trapper seems to think it was to warn of high tide flooding. She might be right as all the bells were ringing around the same time this morning. Our bnb has the kitchen window on the canal. There is a bridge over the ca...