Shopping, Shopping, shopping!

This place is leather heaven and between 3 of us now we have managed to accumulate about 9 or 10 handbags!!! They are really cheap and ‘will never go astray!’ That’s our motto anyway.

Gold earrings have been another favourite between us – in general prices are really cheap here – more so thatn we imagined so we are getting our shopping in whilst there are no husbands around!!!

First stop out this morning was along the Arno River in Florence, at the Ponte Vecchio – the main bridge across the river. It is not a vehicular bridge but more an icon of Florence with heaps of little shops on top and a very touristy area. But onward and forward to the church of Santa Croce! But ho hum – there’s lots of leather shops around !!!

Then took a cab up to Pizzale Michaelangelo for a magnificent view over the whole of Florence! I took a heap of photos some of them hopefully picture perfect. Got a cab from there to the Pitti Palace where there are magnificent gardens and a gallery full of artworks but needless to say it was Monday and many of those galleries are closed – as was this one! A shame we missed it but we were once again very tired so more than happy to head back to the hotel, wander off for some dinner and back for another good night’s sleep.