His/Hers

David’s Highlights:

1.) I found a leather messenger’s bag. I’ve been looking for awhile and hadn’t found the right one. But Florence is famed for its leather work and I was able to track down just the thing I was looking for.

2.) We stopped by Dante’s house. Yeah, the guy who wrote the Inferno. It’s surreal to be able to trace the footsteps of people and places that you’ve only read about or seen in books.

3.) Our bike tour of Tuscany was lots of fun. Neither Brenna or I are expert bikers, but the terrain was fairly level and the scenery was spectacular.

Brenna’s Highlights:

1.) The Mercato Centrale- an indoor market with everything you can imagine.  Italians just grocery shop for one day at a time and it was so fun watching them come and go, gathering food for that night’s dinner. We grabbed some rosemary foccacia and prosciutto for a perfect picnic lunch to eat on the front steps of an ancient apartment building.

2.) We did wine and olive oil tasting at a 12th century castle in the Chianti region of Tuscany.  It was beautiful and wonderful and very surreal.  We even saw the Countess who lives at the castle drive by in her little Smart Car.  The Count drives a Porsche.

3.) Climbing to the top of Giotto’s Tower at the Duomo was wonderful.  We were able to see the entire beautiful city and the Tuscan countryside in the near distance.