More Florence Scenes, 2017

There's always plenty to see apart from the churches and museums...

Love those rusticated walls

Also the really old towers that pop-up here and there

At one of the fancy clothing stores downtown

Where 1,148 euros will buy you this cute pre-stressed dress;
shopping tip: maybe check at the Goodwill first; wait, no,
the Goodwill would throw this in the rubbish bin

Walking past the Orsanmichele (we call it the Orson Wells)

The kind of gelato joint Vicki now says to avoid

It was a bit nipply on a few of the days we were there

Vicki says the sculpture is of gelato droppings

A favorite place in Florence I never miss...in the main square,
where they tortured, hanged, and then burned Savanarola at the
stake; thus always to demagogues

Accompaniments to the gelato droppings

Ditto

Outside the Uffizi, Vicki has commissioned a work of art

We climbed it in 2013 but would have had to
stick around into the next week to get
reservations for 2017; perhaps in 2018; we've
both read Ross King's Brunelleschi's Dome
since 2013 and want to have another look

So if you're really smitten by the neo-classical thing, you
can have your own at one of the several stores like this

Fair warning: I can't remember how many times during our travels
I've walked into a bar/cafe/restaurant, asked whether they have
wifi, and then been served a glass of white wine...