So good to be back in Firenze

After a last chance to experience the delights of the Grande Canal it was time to hop on the train and return to Florence. Ilria Borletti from the Italian Department of Culture is suggesting selling tickets to enter Venice in an attempt to keep the tourists and day-trippers away. How sad is that?

Yet, after a five year absence, seeing Florence was like returning to a old friend who beckoned one initially to the Piazza della Repubblica and then down to the scaffold-clad Ufizzi. 

I think Venezia is a place to paint, whereas Firenze is where one goes to see paintings (and, of course, those wonderful sculptures of the quattro and cinquecento). Secretly, I also can't wait to get my teeth into another bestecca alla Fiorentina.