After breakfast at eight, we went to the market to buy bread, tomatoes, and lettuce. Don had a little rest while I made our lunch, drawing upon carefully hoarded Tuscan rations.
Then we set off for the Boboli Gardens, which are part of the Pitti Palace.
The Palace was shut so we spent hours looking at the gardens -- 35000 square meters, and rather like a smaller version of the Vesailles gardens. But with grottos -- this one near the entrance.
This is another Egyptian obelisk, reportedly 3500 years old, but perhaps a copy. It is the fifth one we have seen these holidays!
This is an amphitheater arrangement, useful for state occasions and the like.
We ate our lunch near this statue of Neptune.
We left the gardens and explored the Belvedere fort on the top of the hill.
Chinese artist Huan Zhang had an exhibition.
This piece was called six arms, three faces.
This aluminum Buddha was used as a mold for the other Buddha made of ash.
The ash Buddha is slowly disintegrating, just like some of us.
From the fort we had great views of the city and surrounding hills.
We returned to the Boboli Gardens, and paid our respects to Ceres, or some such deity.
We walked this 'cyprus alley' down to the lower lake, checking out the bird life in a prettyish sort of wilderness running beside alley.
On our way out we saw two more grottos. The first one was the children's grotto.
The second was the Buontalenti grotto.
A light dinner at caffe Quelo.
- Posted that very evening
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