I once met a man named David....

I once met a man named David.....

Hello faithful blog followers and ciao from Florence! Such a fabulous city we simply had to return after visiting for just one day back in November (wow how time has flown since then!). 

After a fun few days in Torino we trained south to Florence, which is probably one of the most awesome and fabulous city from a historical and cultural sense. The Medici family ruled the city for a few hundred years, and Lorenzo the magnificent (awesome name if ever I heard one) was big into science and the arts, so inventors and artists flocked to Florence to get their creative juices flowing. The Medici house is still in the centre square of the city and in the very building Michelangelo carved the David, galelao invented the telescope, da Vinci invented the helicopter and Donatello painted some stuff (I forget the minor details)- but can you believe if? All in the one house?!? To be fair it's a big house but -wow! Adam and I stood there in silent rapture just soaking up the awesomeness for a while.....

But we didn't stand still for too long, far too much to see and do, in our short second visit to Florence we saw the David (seriously- most impressive sculpture I have EVER seen- it's ruined other sculptures for me for life), cruised through the uffitzi gallery saying hello to the Italian artists, walked the ponte Verdi and saw all the rows of jewelry shops (the bridge was bombed by the Nazis during ww2 and the people of Florence dredged the bottom of the river, pulled up all the pieces of rock and rebuild the bridge exactly as it was before). When we werent looking at art we were cruising the religious scene, popping in to the duomo just to stand and take it in- its absolutely freaking huge. No other way to put it, it is colossal. And the awesome thing is, a few decades ago there was a flood and some damage to the mosaic floors, and when they set to work repairing the floor they found out the massive, huge, centuries old duomo was built on top of an even massiver, huger, older cathedral!! The florence people aire were clever! We went down into the basement of the duomo and saw the ruins of the older church...pretty awesome stuff.

We also ate what probably works out at about double our body weight in gelato- it was just so delicious and so so so many fabulous flavors just begging to be tasted! (I'm trying very hard to justify my calorie intake for the past few days- or past 3 months come to think of it!!!)

So in short, thanks in part to a man called David Adam and I have fallen in love, head over heels, with the city of Florence. It is with a heavy head we leave in the morning- but, Rome is a calling..........

I hope everyone back home (wherever your homes are) are safe and well and happy
Love
Lauren the lover of Florence and Adam the atomic gelato eater