Tuscany part 2

Ben tornato (that’s ‘welcome back’ in Italian)

We are now on to Day 3 – it was a Saturday and we spent the day in Florence just wandering. It’s always good to find the interesting, quirky and random things so here are a few examples:

The original statue of David is in the Accademia Gallery and just down the road there is a university that looks just like a museum. Here is the entrance to the university and their staff obviously get sick of tourists wandering in looking for David.
Cappuccinos in Italy are much the same as you would get if you ordered a flat white in Australia. Never saw any chocolate sprinkled on top.
That is the Ponte Vecchio on the left. The river looks like there is not much of a tide difference. So how do you get to those paddle boards????
Public drinking fountain

Day 4 – Pizza and gelato making class. This was so much fun. We hopped on a bus and were taken up into the hills outside Florence to a small farm. After a visit to the herb and vege garden to pick some items for our pizzas and a few berries for the gelato. We then went through the process of making gelato (quite simple – it’s all about the right ratios), and then we started on the pizza dough. Our teacher for this was Lucca – what a hoot. Main things we learned: only use fresh yeast, don’t overload with too many toppings, squash tomatoes with your hands (cutting seeds with a food processor makes it bitter), 48 hours to prove the dough – 24 at room temperature and 24 in the fridge, don’t cut the pizza with a wheel – attack the whole thing with a knife and fork. Can’t wait to practice all this.

So ends Day 4.

Arrivederci

L & M

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