Vacation Plans

Plans for Florence are proceeding smoothly. Our trip is scheduled for Easter week, which is a busy, crowded time in Italy. Nevertheless, I managed to book a hotel room near the center of town, for a reasonable price. The hotel was recommended in Rick Steves' guidebooks for Italy and Florence -- we have had a lot of success with his London and Germany guides, so I hope things will work out well.

I have booked our tickets for the Uffizi (April 15) and the Accademia (April 16). It's great that you can call ahead and reserve your tickets, as I understand the lines are prohibitive. Just looking through the list of the different pieces in these two museums is overwhelming. I can't wait to see.

We are planning to go down from Munich on the night train, I think, and possibly return the same way, unless the prices for flights fall drastically in the next couple of weeks.

I visited Florence once before, in 1984. Almost twenty years ago, now. I remember seeing David, and the straw market, and very little else.

And now for something completely different: these pancakes are making me hungry!