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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 boughtContinue reading “Florence: shopping and touring”

Time to leave Northern Italy and head South, to … Florence! Capital of Tuscany. Yay. I drove down from Claino to Milan, dropped off my car at the train station (bye little BMW, we’ve had a good time together this past couple of weeks), and boarded a fast train. Have I ever told you IContinue reading “Florence by train”