Florence

Two days ago we parked our car in Figline and took the train into Florence.  We go off the train and realized we had no map, and really no idea what we were even supposed to see in Florence.  The day before Trev had booked us tickets for the Galeria Academia to see the statue of David, but that wasn't until 5:15.  What were we going to do until then?  We sort of followed the masses of tourists to see which direction they were headed in off the train.  That took us in the general direction of the golden bridge.  Lunch time was quickly approaching, or come and gone by our usual standards, so we scoped out a place to eat.  We ended up sitting right over the water looking at the bridge.  The restaurant was great and we had an excellent Brunello (1997), and ended up staying there for well over 2 hours.

After lunch we wandered around a little more and gave in to buying a little tourist book with a map.  We found the Academia, and headed in a bit early to try and get our tickets.  They ended up just letting us go in then.  We saw David.  He was probably 15' tall.  In all the pictures I always imagined the statue to be more life size.  After seeing David, that was enough museum for us.  We were on our way (thanks to our  map) to the Piazzale Michelangelo.  A spot that overlooks all of Florence and has a bronze of David.

 I am interested to talk to those that loved Florence to find out what we missed as we both definitely think we missed something here given the reviews before we left.  We had a great day though!