Florence is world famous for it’s museums and art galleries … indeed the whole city is a museum … and beautiful!

We didn’t have time to queue for 2 hours to see David, so we settled for this copy …

We did, however, go to the Duomo …

… and did queue for 20 minutes to walk through … it’s very big and comparatively empty …

And we did explore the streets and squares in the heat …

But … Jan had found a new nirvana … (and smelt the leather!!)

We headed for the Pont Vecchio … shopping mecca …

… and spent quite some time there …

… and found shops nearby like this …

… and stalls with a few(!) leather handbags, and stuff …

This was the result …

Back to the square to rendevous for the bus …

Even the pigeons had taken to the shade …

A whisk past the Plaza Michelangelo to over look the city (without stopping!)

… and back to the ship docked at Livorno … Italian chaos pictured here … cars loading on a car ferry and a 12th(?) century fort nestled in amongst other modern infrastructure!!!