Pictures From My 2nd Week in Italy

When the sky and the water are the same color, it's a beautiful day in Florence. Taken from the Ponte Vecchio Bridge with the Ponte San Trinita Bridge in the background.



Taken of us at the Cathedral at San Lorenzo.

The Christmas Tree at the Piazza del Duomo, directly in front of the Duomo cathedral. Angie and I went out to dinner at this piazza to celebrate my birthday and I shot this pic there.

San Giovanni Batista - Saint John the Baptist.  This is one of my favorite (and perhaps most historically accurate) renditions of him.  If you lived in the desert, made your own clothes, and ate nothing but locusts and honey, you’d probably look like this too!

 

  Enjoying our first fire in the Florence apartment.

                                                                            If you are passing through Florence and want to stop by Doug and Angie’s, it easy.  Just head over the Ponte alle Grazie Bridge and make a left at the end of the street.  We are 6 doors down.  And we always have a bottle of wine ready! J

 

 

 

And finally, my favorite wine of the week – A Chiantigiane Chianti Rufina, bearing the official DOCG stamped label certifying that all grapes in the bottle came from the Chianti district of Tuscany. At 5.08€ per bottle it is uncommonly smooth and acid free, and definitely the champ of the 5.00€ Chiantis (well, for this week….) And no, you can’t get it in the US.