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Room 6 of the pensione has three little beds clustered together, a sink and shower in the room, as well as a wardrobe and some shelves. I can’t imagine living here for more than a few days.



We did have a pretty sweet skeleton key to our door, though. When we went out we had to leave it at the front desk. Pensione hours were until 1:00 in the morning, so if you got back too late you’d be locked out.



Our LinguaViva classroom is on the top floor of a five-story building. The sign in the lobby will tell you it’s the fourth floor, but that’s only because they don’t count ground level as a floor. It’s quite a climb every morning (one good reason to have coffee with breakfast!). The view is pretty nice, though, especially since there is a balcony running around the edge of the building. Our instructor warned us not to lean on the railing. I guess warnings work as well as actually fixing things.



Yesterday we went to see San Miniato’s Cathedral. It’s a Florentine Romanesque structure (you can tell by the two-dimensional surface and multicolored marble!) built in the 11th century. It was a climb to get up there too, but it had a magnificent view.

We had taken the bus to San Miniato’s, but the walk was actually much shorter so half of us decided to hoof it home. It was totally worth it. At this time of night there’s a lot of traffic, but everyone seems to be out and about. This was a chance capture but by far my favorite of the day. We crossed the Ponte Vecchio, and I took a wonderful picture there, but didn’t notice until later that it was unacceptably blurry. I figured I’ll have another opportunity to grab that shot again… This one, not so much.

How many times did you count the Duomo in this entry? Keep track and there’s a cookie for the first person to count them all!

These photos are tiny, but you can view them large-scale at my flickr page: e.kokontis