Our host at Hotel Proconsola tells us that
this is the best sandwich place in Florence, and sure enough, it is
always busy. When we get in, Julie woos the staff by asking them for
their most famous sandwich. She gets a salted pork, spiced eggplant,
cheese, and onion sandwich on a crusty roll.
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The scale of the city is small enough to walk
easily, and it is dense enough to have plenty of amazing things to
stumble across every few blocks. It makes me wonder how many churches
you need if you are a medium sized town in the 1500s.
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The view from our window toward the Duomo,
the biggest church in town.
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The view from our window to
one of the many other churches in town. We see a lot of those rainbow
flags with "Peace" or "Pace" written on them.
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Since I don't have too many photos for
Florence just now, it might be nice to fill out the page with a few
links to local web sites:
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Florence
Museum of the History of Science
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A good collection of telescopes used by Galileo,
and also his middle finger.
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Pizza
joint in Naples
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This is just like Leonzo's in Plantation,
Florida. The pizza of my youth.
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Italian trains
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I haven't been to this website myself, but it
should give an indication of how swanky the trains are here, compared to
Amtrak.
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Our
hotel in Naples
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We could only afford to stay here because they
had just opened and were still hungry for new customers.
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