1 Florentine (not the biccie) Day Plz

Today we elected to do things in the right order and do the Rick Steves walking tour to get our bearings nice and early on. We saw so many cool statues and got real warmed up from the Romans into the Renaissance (bc nothing worth talking about happened in between anyway 🙃). Highlights included more paninis (!!), making fun of the silly Instagram shots in front of the cathedral (see first image and the holy water bottle) and the most extra way to cover up breaking a statue ever (image 4). I did get heartily shamed by the Catholics for being a dirty pagan whore and wanting to enter a church with my shoulders out - even though all the ladies painted on the inside have their boobs out and are draped around for the male gaze (all the men were painted with clothes on so go figure). Anyway - I bought a €5 cover up and took a selfie with their roof so who's the real winner here.Read more