I have lots to fill-in here and so little time. My daughter and I had marvelous three-hour walking tours of both Renaissance Florence first with Giovanni and then ancient Rome with Massimo.
They both know their subjects inside-out and we saw and quickly learned/heard many facts and short stories to get us so much more interested and involved with our beautiful surroundings. Thanks Giovanni ( Florence and Massimo ( Rome ) : you made these cities blossom for us right before our eyes.
I have lots still to add including the names and phone numbers ( email addresses of both Giovanni and Massimo ) in case anyone wants to contact them ) here really soon.
In the meantime enjoy these photos that I took of our walking tours/ some on a bus, too ) of both Florence and Rome the last week of October, 2009 : Tuesday, Oct. 26th, 2009 in Florence and Thursday, Oct. 28th in Rome ).
As you can glean from these photos we had unseasonably beautiful warm, blue-skied, sunny weather. We were so lucky on so many accounts.
It's Sunday, November 29th, 2009 ( 10:22 AM ) as I type this now. I'm back here at home in northern Virginia and my daughter is now in Paris, France with old friends of ours. I am sure that Italy is still very much on our minds a month later ... TONY
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