After a celebratory breakfast, we visited the Uffizi gallery. It was a beautiful gallery, and we had a helpful audio-guide on my phone to tell us a bit more about the most significant works in the gallery. It has an amazing collection of art - from Michelangelo's Holy Family to Botticelli's Birth of Venus to Leonardo Da Vinci's Annunciation. After three and a half hours of exploring, we were quite hungry, so we found a place that our hotel had recommended for lunch.
After lunch, we meandered over to a nice park to do a bit of reading. From there, we saw a beautiful Synagogue. There are military everywhere in Italy, but in this particular neighbourhood, they stand inside small glass prism shapes that jut out from buildings into the sidewalk so that they can see both ways down the street.
While we were walking, we bumped into a nice family from Belgium who was looking for someone who spoke French to help them find their way to city centre. Fortunately, Jer remembered most of his high school French and we were able to walk with them until they could easily see the Duomo rising above the houses.
We returned to the fabulous mozzarella shop in the marketplace for a fresh mozzarella, grilled zucchini, and fresh cherry tomato shish kebab. This shop is amazing. They also have wraps, not filled with mozzarella, but made of mozzarella - what would normally be the bread is actually cheese.
We wandered a bit more to discover an incredible chalk artist creating excellent figures on the ground. We walked back past the Duomo to say goodbye. As we left, it was fun to see new people who had just arrived round the corner and be in awe of the magnificent church for their first time.
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