Travel Update #122

So we are in Rome now, a few days to visit favorite sights, a few days to pack and get Le Duc ready for winter storage. We were five days in Florence, then a day each in Arezzo, Assisi, Orvieto, Bomarzo (Monster Park) before getting here, so, obviously, I have some catching up to do on the blog. More than obviously: much to our pleasant surprise, there has been a change in Italian policy for national cultural sites...photos are now permitted! No more will the cry of "NO FOTOS!" be heard in so many famous museums, cathedrals, chapels, and other institutions. The upshot for the blog is that I now have many pix from the Uffizi, the Santa Maria Nueva, the Medici/Riccardi Palazzo, Francesco's Legend of the True Cross in Arezzo, the New Chapel in Orvieto, and so on. Hundreds, certainly, maybe thousands of new pix, and not just the quick, clandestine, parthian shots of yore. So, we may be a bit further into November before I get all this sorted and posted. Until then, "NO FLASH!"