As we have eluded to in the previous few posts, we have been in Florence for the past week and a half or so. My mom, feeling inspired herself to travel, decided on a whim to spend a month in Italy. She found some cooking classes to sign up for, brought along some family documents to research (her father was Italian) and settled on returning to Florence-- a favorite of the many Italian cities we visited while traveling with my dad and brother during the summer of 2007. She rented an apartment here for the month, and graciously offered to host us for a couple of weeks in her sweet little "home away from home."
The three of us have been exploring Florence and the area around it on foot and have been thoroughly enjoying our time here. The pace of daily life for Italians is slow and leisurely. We've been following their lead, sleeping in most mornings, and taking our time wandering the streets and shopping the markets.
Even as long as we've been here, we still haven't put much of a dent in all that Florence has to offer. In addition to all of the traditional attractions such as the Uffizi and Accademia Galleries, and the world renowned Duomo of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, Firenze is loaded with fruit and leather markets, street performers, and free outdoor sculpture gardens. There's certainly no shortage of things to do, see, or buy.
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