Florence/Pisa

Hmmm, distracted off honeymoon blogging for sometime liao..

Anyway, here's Florence, the home of the Italian artists.
We went and we left, without entering a museum....

1st reason was the queues: can you imagine a queue at the science centre stretching to the center of its carpark? And the queue is waiting for people to exit so that you can enter, not just for buying tickets..

2nd reason was the price: guess we were too frugal. Minimum of 7E per person per entrance, we're not so arty farty, so we would rather spend the money on something else... (like paying 100 Swiss Franc 3 times in a bid to have an Alps hike on a clear day.. well, more on the unfortunate trips later)

So we just spent time walking the streets, looking at free art pieces on display.
I'll just splash on the pictures ba, nothing much fascinated me in Florence except for the humble looking Fiorentina stadium, SGD$4 fried rice, wonderful tuna sandwich (you don't see anything i fancy is artistic eh?)

Over a hill view of the whole of Florence. The prominent dome's called the Duomo, a large church

The famous David (the character in David vs Goliath) by Michalangelo. This was a reproduction on a Piazza. (Free to look) The original is in the Accademia museum.

Pisa is about 1hr's train ride from Florence. So what's there to see in Pisa?

Fiorentina! One of my favourite Championship Manager 2000 club! Haiz... but the stadium... Just need to imagine Jurong stadium with the Fiorentina logo pasted on the gate..

SGD$4 Fried rice! Cheapest staple food we found! Shop assistant from China but didn't dare speak to him in Mandarin at first (so was struggling using English with him) until he started Mandarin (when he overheard us use Mandarin)

Nice tuna sandwich, made by this '帥哥' (according to Dear).. Ok la, looks a wee bit like Brad Pitt. At least his tuna sandwich is nice.

Uffizi gallery: THE gallery to go if you're in Florence. But look at the queue man. (people lining up in the corridor) Can't even see the entrance from this shot.