If we have learned anyhing this last week, its that Rick Steves' maps may suck, but his tips for avoiding crowds are dead on. Prior to our departure from the states we had several conversations that went like this:
"Hey babe...Rick says we should reserve tickets to the Academy where David is located in Florence." "Eh...maybe. we'll see."
Fast forward to the day we are in Florence. It is smoking hot, we took an hour long train from the port to Florence and we are working on hour three standing in line to see this GD statue. You have never seen anything like this. A three hour line. Luckily, we had some nice young ladies in line with us and it was fun to hear about their travels through Europe. I swear one of them was Ali Smith...right down to the personality. I loved her!
So, after the three hour mark, the gates open and our side of the line begins to move. Yes! We are finally in!
Nope. Security cut the line right where we stood. And we stood there for another 30 minutes. "Maybe we should have reserved tickets." Especially since the reserved line only waited 30 minutes.
After almost four hours waiting in line in the blazing sun it took us 20 minutes to see what we wanted to see. David is still as impressive as I remember him.
As a parting gift, our frustrated Mr Tucci decided to buck the security warnings about no photography. "I waited all damn day to see this thing...im taking pictures!"
On the train ride back to port we decided we could scratch Florence off our list for a lifetime. F@&# Florence, he said.
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