Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Florence, Italy, update

We got a deal on the campsite so we decided to stay 3 days in Florence to rest (our legs are still tired from Cinque Terra).

Yesterday we had a look around the city and did some shopping. I managed to find a couple of Vespa t-shirts and we got some stickers for our cases (which are now getting quite covered).

We went over an old bridge which had jewelry shops on it. There was a statue in the middle, which had a fence covered in locks with couples names on (we thought it must be a traditional good luck thing). The next day we saw workmen cutting them off with an angle grinder (a short lived tradition).



Most of what we have been doing is wondering about looking at statues, buildings and markets. Today we mailed off our excess baggage back to Australia, seems that we have collected a lot of scooter stuff... Clocks, posters, models, books, postcards...


Florence = lots of tourists and lots of statues