Florence Day 2

1. Uffizi Gallery
2. Gelati Festival
3. Boots
4. Making Paper
5. New restaurant - Chinese food in Italy

 

Uffizi Gallery

Even though we planned ahead I wasn't prepared for the 2 1/2 hour walk through a bunch of paintings. I got really bored. For me it's just a bunch of paintings really. I know that there are some of the most important paintings in the world but for some reason to me they just don't matter. Although the birth of Venus was quite intriguing. At the very end we saw a room that represented the five elements of the universe (air, water, fire, earth and cheese (I got that last one from the book I'm reading at the moment (The Kane Chronicles (The Throne Of Fire)))). The red marble walls represented fire. The shells encrusted on the roof represented water. The weathervane at the top of the roof represented air. The stone floor represented the earth. But I'm not entirely shore what represented cheese though.

 

 

The birth of Venus by Botticelli

 

 

Gelati festival

After the Uffizi Gallery we walked down to the main part of town to buy Gelati Festival tickets. We tried all the different flavours of gelati. There was melon sobet, lemon sorbet, strawberry, cookies and cream, double choc, vanilla, custard, and my new personal favourite, cookies. Cookies was the Gelati Festival special.

 

 

 

“AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

 

 

Paper making

On the way home we saw a lady making paper designs. The process is called marbling. I thought it was really interesting. Later I found out that you could get this in Melbourne. After that we went home and to bed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's the paper drying

 

 

Next stop: Cinque Terra