Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Assaggio of Italy - uno (1)

Over 2,000 digital photos and many small notebooks full of scribbles returned with us from a dream-come-true trip to Italy and Switzerland in April and May. Upon returning home, we hit the ground running back into our everyday reality; and I soon realized it might well be the next century before I pull together a complete account of this marvelous journey. Hence, here is entry one (uno) of Assaggio of Italy, a post-blog taste of our journey one bite at a time (assaggio means taste...in addition to being the name of many italian restaurants in America). If you want to see or read more, encourage me by posting a comment. It may hasten the writing process... a bit. Florence, known as Firenze, was our first destination, and this historic and highly walkable city captured my heart. A favorite photo is this one of Ponte Vecchio over the Arno River. Built in 1345, it is the only surviving medieval bridge in Florence. Others from this era were destroyed in World War II Allied bombardments.