Firenze, Day 2 (25 Aug)

Woke up with my toe swollen and distinctly blue.



The main thing we did was go to the Stibbert museum. It's a collection of arms, armour and art that was collected by an English man who was fasinated with medieval and renaissance history. It's a bit of a mix, with armour that doesn't match, and even some fakes, but it's a very fun collection to look at.

James and I had a good time studying the western armours. There was also a completely unexpected small sword collection; something we're very interested in at the moment. At the end of the tour they had some of the Japanese armour collection on exhibit. This was great because you usually have to pay extra to see any of it. Unfortunately, I wasn't allowed to take photos inside, but the gardens were lovely.







Afterwards I left James at the fortress for the Goldschmidt conference ice-breaker.







Spent a relaxed afternoon with Francesca. We both had washing and some shopping to do, so we went to the laundromat down the road. Nipped out to do the shopping Dropped shopping at home. Ran into James, Roger, and John on our way back to our washing.

Had bought spaghetti bolognaise ingredients. So after clearing it with our host, told Roger and John they could join us for dinner if they bought extra mince. Which they did.

So I finished the washing, James went home to start cooking. John and Roger brought in wine and beer, so we had a very social supper. After which we retreated to another microbrewery pub James had located.