Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italy. Show all posts

Monday, May 9, 2022

Florentine Out-Takes

World champion! But what's the world coming to?

At the sculpture store

Door handle to a laundry

How to convert your Romanesque door frame to
Gothic in one easy step

Double-barreled? or perhaps pierced?

Mercury at the Bargello

High school student doing immersive art history;
some countries don't take kindly to this sort of
thing...in Greece she'd be arrested, fined, and possibly
imprisoned; seriously

When the cream-colored Davids from your first visit just won't
do anymore

Didn't see this in Paris

Still processing this one

And still my favorite store in Florence

For very short tennis players

1200€ hand purse, not large enough for a small coffee mug


Would have been so comfortable in my years as
a suit in Dallas

Maybe not

Thus always to demagogues

Immersive experience outside the Selfie Museum

Unicycle parking


Sandro's parking garage

Banana republic

Today's wedding...actually turned out to be an American destination
wedding

Fresh from New Orleans, today's civic
nuisance



Florentine Eats

We hit four or five restaurants in Florence on this visit, always dining outside, sticking with the bifstecca mostly, but sampling a few other things too. It was a mixed experience, not always sparking joy.

At the central mercado, I ordered half a kilo of veal scallopini--
here's the butcher scallopinizing it--which meant we would cook 
and eat in the apartment 3 nights...

Our traditional meal at the Antico Ristoro di Cambi

The steak plus a selection of Tuscan goodies, not
pictured; somehow, the experience was different; 
there were plenty of locals there, as always, but the
wait-person was American, and much was lost in
non-translation; plus Vicki's creme brulee was a soup
rather than a custard

Worst $25 lunch ever, at the Uffizi, my tuna sandwich
and her pizza; we've had better pizzas at guest-houses
trekking in Nepal; seriously

Another day, another resto, Grotto di Guelph, another Tuscan sampler,
including wild boar and venison...

I thought I'd try the Tuscan tomato/bread soup;
very filling...

Her lasagna was a better bet

Grilled veggies at another place, Ristorante Bracerie Auditore

And another bifstecca Fiorentina; it has gotten very popular,
with almost every resto showcasing its aging cabinet...best to
order the more expensive grades

Vicki's panna cotta with red fruit was superb


Florence Scenes

 Scenes from our many walks in Florence...

Rive gauche, from the vicinity of the Vespucci bridge

Behind the scenes restaurant scene...still morning, too

Dragon lanterns

Another town of restaurants

Almost every one a beauty, too

High Street

In the Palazzo Strozzi

Beautiful buildings all around

Riverfront approaching the Uffizi

Arch city

Ponte Vecchio, the only one the Germans didn't destroy as they
retreated 

David copy in the big piazza

Us, there

Not copies

We were going to do a quick visit to the Duomo, genuflecting
to Brunelleschi, Ucello, Vasari, et al., but they wanted 15€ each
for admission, more than we wanted to pay, having seen it
many times, its museum, even climbed the rotunda twice...

Love the curvy streets

Also love the 12th century skyscrapers...towers 
of power

Up river view

Rare dorsal view of Ponte Vecchio

Beautiful city