So after a day and a half in Florence ( I am now convinced that one needs to spend at least a week in Florence to at just begin to see what there is to see) where we visited the Duomo, Palazzo Vecchio (with the copy of the David, Neptune and a variety of otherContinue reading “Arrivederci Florence, Salve Assisi and a beautiful Basilica (but no pictures please)”
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Sorry for the delay. Have been searching for my muse to no avail đ
Hello to one and all sorry for the delay in the next post. In the past I have always had a concept of the theme for a given hike but for some reason this time it has escaped me. So this series of blog posts will kind of operate the way I used to writeContinue reading “Sorry for the delay. Have been searching for my muse to no avail đ”
Breakfast at a namesake
We will continue our marathon of the extended tour of the Duomo and its environs next post. Instead I will tell you about going a local pasticceria across the piazza from the Duomo and Baptistery which was in our family name. Scudieri is the original derivation of my last name Scudere. My great grandfather changedContinue reading “Breakfast at a namesake”
A visit to the Baptistery or “the scaffolding Gremlin strikes again”
So, before we totally leave the Duomo, though we will be back, I do have a one of more fresco that I think will be of interest. I cannot do this justice but hell is in the lower left of the painting (Left, in Italian, being the word “sinistra” (from which the word “sinister” isContinue reading “A visit to the Baptistery or “the scaffolding Gremlin strikes again””
A day at the Duomo
After a day of truffle hunting it was time to step up to the fire hose and start gorging myself on culture. Don’t get me wrong, I truly appreciate culture and admire the ingenuity and genius that is typically incumbent with the generation of anything culturally significant. Having said that, while I do appreciate culture,Continue reading “A day at the Duomo”
An evening in the Oltrarno
Well after a nap of a couple of hours I was functioning but not yet hitting on all eight so I considered blowing the evening event of but wine and cheese in Tuscany I ultimately asked myself âare you nuts?â So first was a fifteen minute walk to Piazza di Santo Spirito where we metContinue reading “An evening in the Oltrarno”
Flashback: from ATL to FCO to Firenze SMN and how to find your hotel when Google Maps throws in the towelâŚ..or not
Well the Saturday hike got called on account of weather in the for of Orange flag warnings for thunderstorms and heavy rain. Now as most of you know, hiking in the rain, while not my favorite thing to do, is also not something I typically shy away from when through hiking. I made the callContinue reading “Flashback: from ATL to FCO to Firenze SMN and how to find your hotel when Google Maps throws in the towelâŚ..or not”
Shouldnât we ask Jocko where we should go :-)?
Hello to all after wading through my usual 24 hours of jet lag, more about day one later, I awoke on day two not quite as right as rain but functioning fairly well all things considered. Thus, onto one of my hoped for highlights of the trip, the truffle hunt. It did not disappoint. ItContinue reading “Shouldnât we ask Jocko where we should go :-)?”
Florence/Tuscany 2023
Hello to one and all! Another year and I would normally say another hike, but this year my trip, fortunately, is a little different. Given that this year’s destination is the place of the birth of the Renaissance, Florence, Italy, rather than making a through hike from point to point as is usually the case,Continue reading “Florence/Tuscany 2023”
Last Lap in 2022 a hidden discovery in the city of Crotone
As we finished our trip to SGIF we arrived back in the City of Crotone just at the start of rush hour. By then we had spent most of the day with our driver Vincenzo Panaja, owner of Crotone taxi (www.crotonetaxi.it 39-329-614-7131 I highly recommend him) a very friendly fellow with whom we had severalContinue reading “Last Lap in 2022 a hidden discovery in the city of Crotone”
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