Back in Florence
By traveltripz on Aug 16, 2007 in Italy, Florence
We arrive back at the hotel and park the car. It looks so tiny in the parking space when we look down at it from our hotel room window.
There is il negozio di alimentari (grocery store) just down the road from our hotel so we set off to buy some food for dinner and lunch the next day. It reminds me very much of the corner shop from my childhood. The air is filled with the aroma of food and hessian sacks. It doesn’t take long to make our decision as there isn’t a great deal of variety, so armed with tomatoes, deli meat, bread, a variety of cheeses and some biscuits, we make our way to the counter to pay.
The lady huddled behind the counter seems more intent on carrying on a loud discussion with a man who is rearranging items on the shelves, than attending to us. However, eventually she adds up the total and we make our payment of something like 1 million lira.
Back at the hotel, we eat and drink before settling in for the evening. We have a lot to do tomorrow and we want to make an early start.
So much to do and so little time. We are already regretting having only booked 5 days in Florence.
