In Florence

We decided to have one whole day in Florence - woo-hoo! So, we caught a train there from our station 9km from Vagki Sotto. The train trip was a bit of a pain. It seems that denoting transport of bikes on the schedule doesn't actually mean that the Italian trains provide a place to put them, necessarily! So we spent 1.5 hours nursing our bikes within the entry way of a carriage . It wasn't too bad....

In Florence, we rode to our hotel from the station and found out that they had moved us to a better hotel just around the corner, so, we cycled there, installed our baggage then took off with our bikes to cycle the streets. Turns out that this is the best way to see the city. You can travel fastish and cover more ground, it's a bit cooler than walking in the heat and you feel slightly removed from the throngs of tourists.

We went to the La Specola museum which is not part of the tourist circuit, and looked at the display of stuffed animals and wax statues of anatomical human dissections. We even saw a thylacine!

After this we went the central market where there was a food hall with lots of big TV screen set up for the World Cup game Italy vs Costa Rica. We found some space to sit and ate pizza and tripe sandwich while we watched the game. Italy didn't score though so the atmosphere, which was humming to start of with, became a bit subdued.

Margherita pizza

It's a good one!

Tripe sandwich

The tripe sandwich eater

 

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