SHARING WITH ME

Florence Florence was to be a 48 hour trip and then when I thought perhaps Gianni could join me, I prolonged it to three days - or nearly. Which turned into four days as I was stuck at Pisa airport for nearly 8 hours before we were informed that the plane was canceled. Not because of the snow in Paris but because of an army plane which was grounded on the runaway. If it hadn’t been for Gianni, I would have stuck to my usual ritual of exhibitions and for once taking in the Uffizi and that would have been it. Instead as you can see from the above map, we walked Florence and saw an awful lot. Santa Maria Novella Not being overwhelmed with churches, although I would have liked to see the Basilica di Santa Novella but it wasn’t open the couple of times we went.  I liked the Ognissanti Church. (All Saint’s Church) Not very impressive from the outside but baroque in the inside. It’s a Franciscan order completed at the beginning of the 13th century. What I liked about it was