Florence: shopping and touring

So you’re in Florence, and you’re me, and you’ve discovered that you’ve stupidly failed to pack any nice warm-weather walking around clothes. What do you do?

Fortunately there are about a million designer clothing shops in downtown Florence, and yes, I found myself in a Gucci (the *original* Gucci store, apparently), and yes, I bought some shorts and a couple of polo shirts. What can I say.

Perhaps fortunately, no pictures 🙂

an Italian hat would be nice?
later I actually did get one … but … didn’t like it. Too … old?

Later had a nice business meeting with a potential customer – nope, not blogging about that, but it *was* nice – and made the mandatory visit to the Boboli Gardens…

lots of garden art
this one is pretty famous – the cracks are supposed to represent strength
definitely a sense of peace and calm
and of time passing, slowly

And then ho hum another unbelievable dinner in the street … truffle carpaccio with truffle ravioli …