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Colin here. I promised I'd follow up. Bit late, but eh.

In my effort to check off another line on the standard Important Places in Florence list, I went to the Palazzo Vecchio last week. Actually it was with my art history class, but I would've went eventually. It was incredible. The palace functions as a museum mostly it seems, but one of the main chambers is still used for some purposes for the mayor or something. There's supposed to be Da Vinci painting that exists behind the current mural by Giorgio Vasari. A university from the US (San Diego I think) has a big curtain in front of it, and is making tiny holes through the wall to research this possibility. The rest of the palace is massive and unbelievably extravagant. Any surface that isn't painted is sculpted, or tiled elaborately, or guilded. Sorry I didn't take pictures, I forgot my camera. I'll be back.

Reminds me, I've got this art student card that gives me cheap/free entrance to museums around the city. The Uffizi is one of them. You can find me there.

Things here are expensive. My diet has made the notable move from pasta literally everyday to pasta literally everyday and also bread. And maybe wine. Yep, Italy's changing me. Some things that are a really good value: wine, kiwis, bread, espresso, and for some reason, art paper. Also, I ate this cookie last week. I forget what it's called, but it tastes like a mildly sweet, very thick, chewy version of the chocolate chip cookie. It's my favorite thing so far.

There sure are a lot of Irish bars around. Not sure what that's about, but they're cool. Dig this sign:

That's about all for now. Let me drop some more photos on you.

I haven't had cartwheels for over a decade

I'm trying to avoid the Duomo pics, but it was a good day

Studio Fuji, where screen printing happens

one of our radiators. I think it just keeps itself warm. selfish bastard.