FLORENCE, TUSCANY, ITALY

Day65

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Here we are!~!

In FLORENCE...the capital of Tuscany, the home of Michangelo's statue of David. The home of Leonardo Da Vinci's famous drawings....the home of Raphael's sculptures and Donatello's artistry...

Sounds like it's the home of the Ninja Turtles hey!!!!!

And honestly. This is where it all initiated too, the Ninja Turtle fad, after the high renaissance artists...

In the words of my author friend Michele Drouart, (who wrote Into the Wadi) "Florence is just my favourite place!! It's so romantic!" i think it really is a place that could be called favourite.

We've only just gotten here (yesterday) and we're about to go to Pisa to see the leaning tower..and we're going to do a cooking course and eat Floritine food, and go see Da Vinci's sketches of the way he incredibly captured human and animal movement, as well as look at his drawings of his inventions...helicoptors, bicycles, optics, parachutes, water screws and......machine guns and tanks...of all things. Genius man he was. And also Greg's great hero...

We'll be off to Umbria too....to see St Francis Basillica....and Giotto's work there ...

But I'll tell you all about our adventures AFTER we've experinced it all...

Some exciting days ahead..and we've decided to stay for 4 or 5 days....there's so much to see and do here..and to just be here...in the home of Da Vinci..ohlala.