After checking into our hotel in Florence we started our walking tour seeing the churches of San Giovanni and San Lorenzo. I guess I should just not take pictures within Italian churches as I got a warning again. Outside San Lorenzo there was a protest from all the souvenir venders who left their stores, which are covered wagons, on the sides of the street. The scene looked like Oregon Trail.
We then got lunch at a nearby restaurant; these cover charges to sit are killer—6 € for 4 of us plus tip. Dammit Italy. After lunch we went to the Church of Santa Maria Novella which was decorated with a golden, pictorial mosaic of a ceiling. I kept thinking that the screeches we heard inside were bats, so I expected that Batman would fall from the ceiling and grab someone at any second. It was probably the sirens of the police outside trying to contain the protest.
The following is a list of odd things I’ve noticed in Italy: Italy has a thing for the Simpsons as I keep seeing Duff Beer shirts around and it’s always playing in restaurants during dinner. Italy also has a law requiring a passport or ID # in exchange for free Wi-Fi. The government can also apparently restrict when sales can occur during the year according to one shopkeeper we talked to (that could be BS though).
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