Posts Tagged ‘ugly Americans’

Today, Fiesole

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Nerd mode activated, Greg woke Katelyn up early to go see the Museum of Science. Actually, it was pretty cool with all sorts of instruments and telescopes and globes and random stuff used by scientists and ‘mathematicians’ from the tenth century onward. At that time, mathematics was pretty much synonymous with astronomy, so a lot of astrolabes and stuff. Other highlights include mechanical calculators, early electrical devices, and several of Galileo’s gravity-measuring machines (and his middle finger, weirdly on display in a jar).

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Go with the Flow-rence

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By now, we’re done roaming Rome, so it’s off to Florence, home of Michelangelo, Lenonardo, and a whole bunch of people named Medici. Honestly, you can’t walk ten feet (that’s 3.048 meters to non-Americans) in Firenze without gazing at or walking on or running into or sitting on Something di Medici. Anyway, we took our first train betwixt the two cities, which provided some nice scenic views.
Next to Rome, Florence was the most touristy place we’ve been so far. This was immediately obvious when we got off the train and heard the English of a thousand ugly American tourists. To their credit, this is definitely a place worth visiting—everything’s so florentinian, ya know? Can’t blame ‘em.

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We keep our Brits about us

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For our second day in Londontown, we slept in a bit, which was pleasant. It’s amazing what an extra half hour of shut-eye and some toast can do. We started the morning with the British Museum—5 thousand years of history under one roof. The Rosetta Stone, of course, was magnificent, but the throngs of school groups drove us upstairs to the exhibits on Greece and Italy.

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