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We bought a
Florence-on-your-own bus ticket. While
driving on the Autostrada from Livorno to Because it was a cruise
excursion we didn’t have to worry about missing the boat. It would wait. A fresh bus came an hour later and took us
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This is the statue of We had tickets to the
Uffizi. |
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Pinnochio is named after
pine nuts. He came from There are Pinnochios all
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Paula, my personal jewelry
expert, and former senior instructor at the GIA checks out the jewelry in a
shop on the Ponte Vecchio. |
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Here on the Ponte Vecchio
I’m carrying my new Italian suit that Paula and I bought in Coin, a
department store in |
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We crossed the Ponte
Vecchio and had cappuccinos and desert. The first café we sat in
had no help so we moved to the next one. |
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The legend is that if you
touch the pig’s nose you’ll come back to We then headed back to the
excursion rallying point at the steps of Santa Croce Cathedral where
Machiavelli, Michelangelo, and Galileo, my heroes are buried. |
We asked directions from a
police car filled with four cops. They
pointed in the opposite direction and laughed at us. |
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Our room attendant made a
towel elephant for us. |
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