Florence
— One of the world's most beautiful cities in winter: the colours of terracotta and almond dusted with snow.”
Florence is without a doubt one of the world’s most beautiful cities.
It has been home to great artists and their patrons for centuries. Bocaccio, Da Vinci, Botticelli, Dante, Giotto, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Galileo, Cavalli and numerous popes: all of them have lived here.
It was unseasonably cold, coming right after the torrid heat of Egypt. A smoking ban had just come into force and all the bars that had bothered to open after Christmas were empty though great places to get warm!
We had with us a bulky Olympus SLR camera when compact digitals of any quality were still both uncommon and uncommonly expensive. The results seem to have been suffused with a rather nice yellowy-brown tinge.
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