Firenze, vino e mangiare!

Taking advantage of the few minutes before we have to leave the wine bar to head out to dinner on our last evening in Florence, here I am (James) posting a few (very wise) words from Tuscany.

As David has said in his numerous (and somewhat lengthy!) posts, we've been having a super time. Most of our days have been spent in churches, art museums, wine bars, and restaurants. But today we just walked and walked (and walked.....and walked) throughout the center of Florence just taking in the views. Lots of window-shopping! In another life, I suppose, we might have made some significant purchases, but in this one we just enjoyed looking in the shops of Ermenegildo Zegna, Gucci, Versace....e tutti l'italiani famosi della moda!

OK, David is so weird! Even as I'm writing this post, he's taking a photo of me in the wine bar. I mean, really! How interesting can a photo of me blogging be to the rest of the world. But I suppose that's the cross I bear for being partnered with a photographer. (Oh, I see that the influence of Italy is already weighing heavily on me.....I'm using religious metaphors now in my speech.)

This is really quite a surreal experience at the moment. This wine bar/book store is having an event at the moment where a famous Italian author is doing a reading from one of his recent books. It's very odd...it's a romance language, and it seems as though I should be understanding it, but it's nearly incomprehensible to me. I can pick up words now and then, but as far as the sense of it all....forget it. So I guess the best I can do while I'm here is to focus on looking at all the beautiful people.

That's all for the moment.

Ciao, bello! (or bella!)

James