{"id":8078,"date":"2009-03-20T21:20:28","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T04:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=8078"},"modified":"2011-12-16T08:05:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:05:13","slug":"florence-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/03\/20\/florence-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"

We both took sleeping pills; this is one of our tricks to switch timezones, stay up as late as you can and then take a sleeping pill to help you sleep through the night.<\/p>\n

We got up and had breakfast; the hotel has a great buffet breakfast including fresh eggs and bacon. That little girl was there last night, and sandals still confuse her!<\/p>\n

There are stores around the hotel – I was amazed by these lace footies.<\/p>\n

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Lace footies in a store window<\/p><\/div>\n

We began by walking across the piazza with the Duomo and the Bapistry towards the Galleria Ferroni e Cenacolo di Fuligno; on the way we found a nice painted facade at Piazza di Madonna degli Aldobrandini<\/a> (there are a number left in Florence) and a cool public water trough that was designed by della Robia.<\/p>\n\n\t\t