I’m kicking off the Year of the Horse with a series of six looks around one bag, the Hermès black matte croc Kelly 32cm bag that I recently adopted. Please bear with me the unprofessional photography. It’s so much easier to point and shoot scenes from the street than to take selfies. It’s impossible to get the lighting, angle, and …
Year 6
So while I was on the road, November 3, 2013 came and went like any other day. Except that it marked the advent of the sixth year of this blog. If I were sticking to tradition, I would feature photos of six items of something that told a cohesive story since the root of most of my blog entries resides …
Arrivederci, Firenze!
One of the luxuries of travel is time. Time to go back to some place you couldn’t get enough of the day before or to snap that one photo of something that had caught your eye but got away. As I noted in the last entry, I had a bit of a rush getting to the Piazzale Michelangelo and the …
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Florence Through Rose Tinted Glasses
One of my favorite things to do in visiting any place is to find some sweet spot for a bird’s eye view of the city below. Here in Florence, that magical place is the Piazzale Michelangelo, a square high on top of the left bank of the Arno River. The piazza is dedicated to Michelangelo and there is a bronze …
Best Sandwich In Florence
Don’t let the title of today’s post and the picture above fool you. I’ve not succumbed to eating meat again after some 20+ years because of Florence. That’s the bronze Il Porcellino (the piglet), a fountain at the Piazza del Mercato Nuovo. Tourists come by to rub the boar’s snout to ensure a return to Florence, that is if they …