Art, thunderstorms and David's shlong
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
When plans for Croatia and Egypt fell through, we had to resume the original route which meant that Florence was the next stop. To be honest, we were not that excited about visiting as Florence is really an art lovers paradise with great works like Michelangelo's David residing here. Still, we went out and saw some of the sights, ate some more gelati and did a spot of shopping. We saw the fake David and then queued to see the real McCoy. It was at this stage that we made a decision that we should have made earlier in the trip - we brought our first umbrella.
Amidst the queuing we heard an all to familiar sound, the sound of the sky about to open and give us a mid afternoon cooling. And they did. Next thing we knew we where caught in the middle of the worst torrential downpour and thunder storm of the whole trip - thunder bolts and lighting very, very frightening me! The new toy got a real good work out keeping our heads nice and dry, but it was unable to save the rest of our bodies from complete saturation. After a mad dash for the bus (which was unable to go the normal route due to flooding) we arrived back at the safety of the camp ground.
The one place we wanted to go to was San Gimgaiano, a small town outside of Florence. We brought tickets and waited and waited and waited for the bus that never arrived. We were gutted, especially as others that did manage to get there said it was spectacular. We are definitely coming back to check that out.
This may sound silly, but being caught in that storm was probably (in our opinion) the most exciting thing in Florence. Not sure if we would go here again, but as we were on our way through, we had to check it out.
Labels: Travel
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