We started yesterday off with a lunch at Trattoria Mario. We went there on Friday for the first time and enjoyed their fish menu, but wanted to try it on a non-fish day. I had a rib-eye steak and Cinzia had bollito. All very tasty and it seemed to be quite the foodie place to go. We shopped for paper for Cinzia during the day with a stop at Gelateria Porta Romana, which is perhaps the furthest gelateria from our apartment, but the 1.5 mile walk to get there was worth it. Cinzia found several hand-painted Florentine papers to bring back home to use on scrapbook pages and greeting cards. The 70cm x 50cm sheets aren’t cheap. We got one for €10 and five others for €35 – that’s over $60 worth of paper, but it makes her happy. She just loves cutting up paper and putting them back together, that’s what I tell her. For dinner we had picked up some things from the Mercato Centrale to prepare: veal parm, tomato salad, and rosemary potatoes. Cinzia even bought a few fresh porcini mushrooms, picked that day, to sauté for herself.
I've added 3 new videos to our Video Gallery. They're from our climbs to the top of the bell tower and dome. Enjoy!