Recipe for jet lag:
Take Air Canada to Rome 8.5 hours
Add small dose of sleep - approximately 3 hours
Add transfer between terminals and 2- hour wait in Fuiminciano Airport
Mix in 1/2 hour flight to Florence ( should have been 1-hour flight, but had "cowboy" pilot (that's another story for another time).
Heat up at 35 degrees.
.....e presto ! Please note that this is a "tested" recipe.
Our cab driver from the airport to the hotel was charming. He chastised us for not spending enough time in Florence (3 days), but congratulated us on our choice of hotel in the centre of it all.
Hotel Hermitage is charming, with a fabulous roof garden overlooking the Ponte Vecchio. After changing, Jim and I headed out for a reconnaisance mission. Florence is an architectural
delight, quite compact and totally pedestrian friendly. When fatigue made us walk like two drunken soldiers, we returned to the hotel - Jim to the roof garden to write in his journal and me to our room for total collapse and an hours nap.
I must tell you that Florence by night is magical. We could hear music from the Ponte Vechhio
so we headed down. Two musicians were singing - gorgeous Italian songs - an appreciative crowd
clapped in time, and couples young and old danced in the middle of the bridge. So okay, I'm a
sucker for this kind of evening.
At this juncture I was going to add some photos, but between Jim and I we seem totally
incapable of adding them via this ------- iPad! Help David! I'll try to add some on Facebook for the time being.
Tomorrow, with some real sleep under our belts we will begin to explore in earnest.
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