A bus to call our own

So the B&B we're staying at in Florence is sort of out of the way. In fact we seem to be in some sort of no man's land that doesn't even get included in maps. Seriously, there are 3 bus routes that go within a block of our place, but all the maps end about 2 blocks early. Even the city's bus maps show that the route continues, but it just seems to fall off the edge of the page. In any event, one of these routes is brand new, it just started running 3 days ago. Needless to say, when asking for directions on that route nobody has a clue. This has lead to a bit more walking around than required, but as a bonus we accidentally found one of the Piazzas we wanted to see.

Our first full day in Florence was pretty great actually. We got in to a gallery to see the statue of David, climbed up to the top of the cathedral's dome here for an excellent view of the city, and then went through a nice market that we spotted from the dome. Despite not being any sort of art buff, or really a fan of much art at all, there is a lot of very impressive stuff here. And admittedly, the 2.5 hours to wait to see the statue of David was a long time, it was still well short of the 8 hours to see David Sedaris last summer so this was totally worth it.

We learned 2 important lessons today. 1) To get all the Nutella out of a pack of Nutella and bread sticks you have to have about a tablespoon of delicious hazelnut/chocolate/icing stuff on each bread stick and 2) If a dude on the street playing a guitar-looking thing for tips thinks you're going to throw out the last of your gelato since you're about to enter a church he'll GLADLY take it off your hands.

I'm just going to throw in a couple pictures of the day, probably without any smart-ass comments...I'll leave that to you.