Saturday in Florence

Today we jumped aboard a bus for a tour of Florence. We hopped off at Piazzale Michelangelo first of all. There were marvellous views of the city and river.

Our next stop was Palazzo Pitti. (a very grand palace) with very beautiful gardens. It is now a museum. There are wonderful paintings on the walls and even the ceilings. I really liked the room full of jewellery. Some of the jewellery was modern but most of it was very old. We were not allowed to take photographs inside the rooms. 

We had lunch - pasta with gelato for dessert (again!). Then it was off to another museum. This one was all about famous scientists. John LOVED it. He is a science teacher, after all. 

This is the view from Piazzale Michelangelo. It was a bit cooler and wet today. Once we got inside though we had to take off our coats because it was too hot!

Here we are in the gardens of the palace. Very grand and very enormous. I am glad I don't have to do the mowing or trim the hedges.

These globes are in the Galileo Museum. (the one about the famous scientists) Some of them are very old. They are so old they don't have Australia on them because Australia had not been discovered by white man yet. 



This is a statue of Galileo. He is famous for discovering the moons of Jupiter, discovering dark patches on the sun (sunspots) and developing a way to measure time. He is one of John's favourite scientists. He lived from (about) 1550 to 1630. (a very long time ago)