Florence

I have been a bit quiet on the blog front of late and one of the reasons for that was a holiday in Florence. We love Italy and Florence had been on the must visit list for a while. We weren’t disappointed – it is stunningly beautiful, the people are great and when in Italy the food is always fantastic. We found an excellent hotel, just 100m from Il Duomo, with a rooftop terrace bar where we would relax for a while in the evening before going out to dinner. It had some great views and I loved the way the setting sun created shadows of the old church bell tower across the road.

I had heard how beautiful Florence was but I was not prepared for the scale and grandeur. It seemed that where ever you walked there were the most amazing old buildings and churches. The best time to explore with the camera was early in the morning when the streets were quiet.

Jeff, my husband, thinks I have an obsession about photographing scooters when I am in Italy. He is probably right, but I guess that to me it just seems so Italian, a part of their culture and therefore something I want to capture. I am still trying to work out how they park them so close to each other without creating a domino effect and knocking all the others over.

Sunset over the River Arno and the Ponte Vecchio.

Il Duomo illuminated at twilight.