After the weekend in which I did not go to London but had a lovely time admiring the snow in Florence and hanging out with Emilia's uncle, Bruno, Mom and Ellie arrived in Florence!!! We had a wonderful week in an apartment near Santa Croce, which we rented from Simone, a young and friendly guy who turned out to be Emilia's banker. Go figure. (I have yet to find a good Italian substitute for that phrase). I took them to the Bargello and the Uffizi and San Miniato al Monte and the Mercato Sant'Ambrosio (where we ran into Antonio, who runs La Talea, the farm where I work--which was a nice suprise, he usually has a table at a different market) and we climbed the Duomo and ate ice cream and made apple pie and roast beef and rosemary potatoes and had Chianti and Pecorino cheese with pears and fresh bread and went to midnight mass on Christmas Eve with Galileo, Michelangelo, Machiavelli and Rossini (they're buried in the Chiesa Santa Croce. Literally inside. Italian churches have a thing about sculpting elaborate monument-tombs for famous and/or important dead people) and just generally walked around Florence and hung out in the apartment playing bananagrams and listening to Christmas music and enjoying being together. It was a good week. I missed not seeing Chris and Dad in person on Christmas (thank goodness for Skype!), but otherwise Christmas in Florence was a lot of fun.
And here are some pictures:
Famiglia in Firenze per Natale (there are more on Mom and Ellie's facebook pages, too)
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