Trip Report Due

Last day in Firenze, am leaving for Roma in about four hours. It's been exciting...driving around the mountains for a spot of shopping, and visiting Pisa (yes, for the famous leaning tower which has been around since 1516?!), which was an hour's train from Firenze, we had a simple lunch of spaghetti di mare, heading back to Firenze, we did sightseeing on our own in town. The highlights had to be the Duomo Cathedral which was lovely (in the colours of green and red with white)...and the Palazo Vecchio where we signed up for an hour's tour of the secret passages :) The tour was fantastic! It was meant to be for a group of 12, but I guess no-one else cared to sign up so it was just the two of us...nice in a way, since it ended up being like a private tour given by a local guide (who spoke excellent english)...we were shown secret walkways and rooms which the public had no access to, and many of the doors were even hidden behind the old paintings. We also saw the back of the ceiling paintings in the grand political hall used by the duke Cosimo - how the paintings were held up by panels and panels of wood since the 15th century really amazed me!

Okie dok, gonna check out the shops before we head down to Roma :)

Ciao!