soaking in the tourists

This morning I went shopping in Florence. I stopped at "Peter's Teahouse" in Piazza San Pancrazio 2/R, just a stone throw from Palazzo Strozzi. What a delightful shop for Tea and everyting around it! Loredana really knows everything about Tea and does find out in a second what kind of tea drinker one is. Afterwards I went through our alleys and watched the nicely dressed Saturday walkers. I call them like that because on a Saturday, lots of Florentine women seem to be more dressed up than usual. In fact, at stores like Zara you have to queu 20 minutes at the cash desk.

2 p.m., sitting at "Nella" in Via delle Terme 19 (very close to Ponte Vecchio), where I had a real good dish with Lasagne and where I soaked tourist in. What a joy to see 8 english people sitting and enjoying there lunch, chatting, laughing and telling each other where they had there best meals. What would Florence be without them?

Thank you for coming to Florence :-)

cari saluti

Christina