A Pittiful afternoon
(Originally written offline on May 26 at 5:45pm Italy time, in Florence)
Just to pick up where I left off, describing yesterday:
The Pitti palace is amazing. Mom, Dave and I just bought tickets for the garden and walked around. Again, it's hard to give a sense of the scale of it, but Dave and I tried to capture as much as we could on film. Here are a couple of partial shots of the courtyard, the first thing you encounter:
(That's Dave in the middle in the first shot.) Behind the palace itself is the enormous Giardino di Boboli (Boboli Garden), which is not unlike a city park, with trails, fountains, and statuary everywhere. Here's a shot of the palace from the garden:
The trail ascends as you walk away from the palace; by the time you're near the top, you have a pretty nice view. Here's Dave chilling near the top of the hill, with the gardens, the palace, Florence, and the hills in the background:
As in other places, the sculpture is everywhere. Here are just a few examples:
Mom ran into one figure who seemed particularly belligerent, and decided to pick a fight:
I guess she figured that any advantage he had in strength, weight, and endurance was balanced by her relative speed and agility.
At the very top of the hill is a nice flower garden:
And beyond, some very nice views of the hills and houses behind the Pitti:
We enjoyed spending time in the garden.
We also took the opportunity to photograph some of the wildlife there:
In addition, I borrowed the camera to capture a favorite subject of mine that David had been neglecting: the women. My approach was pretty simple, I would walk up and say, "Can I take a photo of you?" Of course, it works better when you have a fancy camera. And when you say it in Italian. Both of which I did.
Mi scusi, signorina, posso fare un foto di te?
Bella, bella!
Grazie mille!
(I took more than that, but those are the only two I liked enough to post. Need to get better at getting people to pose and smile well.)
In the evening, we spent a little time out by the river at dusk.
Dave liked this one of me, although I think I have a bit of a funny expression on my face:
I will write more later—today we went to the Uffizi gallery and the science museum, so I have much to tell.
Just to pick up where I left off, describing yesterday:
The Pitti palace is amazing. Mom, Dave and I just bought tickets for the garden and walked around. Again, it's hard to give a sense of the scale of it, but Dave and I tried to capture as much as we could on film. Here are a couple of partial shots of the courtyard, the first thing you encounter:
(That's Dave in the middle in the first shot.) Behind the palace itself is the enormous Giardino di Boboli (Boboli Garden), which is not unlike a city park, with trails, fountains, and statuary everywhere. Here's a shot of the palace from the garden:
The trail ascends as you walk away from the palace; by the time you're near the top, you have a pretty nice view. Here's Dave chilling near the top of the hill, with the gardens, the palace, Florence, and the hills in the background:
As in other places, the sculpture is everywhere. Here are just a few examples:
Mom ran into one figure who seemed particularly belligerent, and decided to pick a fight:
I guess she figured that any advantage he had in strength, weight, and endurance was balanced by her relative speed and agility.
At the very top of the hill is a nice flower garden:
And beyond, some very nice views of the hills and houses behind the Pitti:
We enjoyed spending time in the garden.
We also took the opportunity to photograph some of the wildlife there:
In addition, I borrowed the camera to capture a favorite subject of mine that David had been neglecting: the women. My approach was pretty simple, I would walk up and say, "Can I take a photo of you?" Of course, it works better when you have a fancy camera. And when you say it in Italian. Both of which I did.
Mi scusi, signorina, posso fare un foto di te?
Bella, bella!
Grazie mille!
(I took more than that, but those are the only two I liked enough to post. Need to get better at getting people to pose and smile well.)
In the evening, we spent a little time out by the river at dusk.
Dave liked this one of me, although I think I have a bit of a funny expression on my face:
I will write more later—today we went to the Uffizi gallery and the science museum, so I have much to tell.
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