I thought I had done my traveling early this year, and quite definitively, with the trip to Australia and New Zealand, but here I am in Florence, Italy attending a conference called "Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History." The weather here is gorgeous, warm to hot during the day and pleasantly cool at night. I traveled overnight via Paris and just made the connection to my Florence flight by minutes. Miraculously my hotel room was available when I arrived, weary and sleep deprived, at 10am local time (4am my body time). Took a short (4-hrs, oh well, I meant it to be 2 hours) nap and then went out for a little walk around the neighborhood. I only got as far as the street market beside the Basilica San Lorenzo. I thought my legs were going to give out but a quick refreshing lemon gelato revived me for the walk back to the hotel. I had a late dinner at the Ristorante Accademia in Piazza San Marco. I won't torment you with how delicious it was. Just take my word for it...it is very hard to get a bad meal here. So with all my muscles (and I use that term loosely) aching I staggered back to the hotel and to sleep.
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