Somehow I managed to get up and out this morning (discipline!) after a nice breakfast in the hotel's lovely high-ceiling-ed breakfast room (ok so I don't love continental breakfasts but this wasn't bad). Here are some images that I found on the net of the hotel - I couldn't have taken these myself. Believe me that is NOT what I had for breakfast.
I had been studying the map, planning my route. It is amazing how misleading the scale of these maps can be. I wasn't sure how far I would get but my main objective was the Baptistery and the Duomo, and the Paperback Exchange (located in a side street near the Duomo). But believe it or not I got all the way to the river, Santa Croce and back to the hotel without giving in an taking a cab. My legs are very annoyed with me and my feet haven't been speaking to me for days.
What I particularly love here is the way you turn a corner and there is a building you have read about all your life. The fact that the first one to "hit" me this morning is my all time favorite, the lovely octagonal Baptistery was a great way to start the walk. I'm going to add a couple of photos from the first part of the walk here and then stop for the night. I will pick up again in the am.
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