Thursday 22 May 2014


The Palazzo Vecchio and the Duomo in Florence.  You can just see Giotto's campanile in the top picture.
To some, this is "O mio babbino caro"; to others, "Una casa con il vista"; A Room with a View"; or merely a panorama of Florence.
For me it is the memory of a meal of spaghetti with a simple tomato sauce eaten on a terrace in the Bardolini Gardens.  The food and wine were red and tasty.

While on the subject of food, every night I was in Florence I ate in that very rare establishment, an inexpensive cafe right next door to a major Italian tourist attraction, in this case the Duomo.  The cafe was (and hopefully still is) called "Il Sesso di Dante" ("The quotation from Dante").  Good simple food, long benches and tables, great company, and NO music.  There's only so many times you can listen to a tenor sing "Come back to Sorrento . . ."

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