More pictures
Craig has posted some pictures he took from his camera and you can check them out here: http://picasaweb.google.com/craig.wilkinson/Europe.
So we're motoring right along in our trip and we've knocked off quite a lot of major attractions. It's gotten to the point where we're tired of museums for the most part and we seem to be more interested in just walking around cities. Well that's mostly true. Rewind a few days back (Jon's post below took place yesterday) to when we went to Florence with the sole intention of seeing David. We arrived in Florence around 4pm and we figured that since it was late in the afternoon and the musuem would be closing soon there wouldn't be much of a line. We got there and the line went down the block. It started slow at first but picked up and within an hour we were inside, our jaws on the floor, just marvelling at David. While we were in line we were joking how ridiculous it is to wait in line for a single sculpture but once we saw it, we knew it was worth it. The amount of detail is remarkable - you can see his veings, muscles and ribs! If you look at Craig's pictures you'll see one of me in front of David but you probably won't be able to make out any meaningful details since we had to be far away cause picture-taking was forbidden. In any event, David was definitely worth the wait.
I was hoping to write a longer post but I'm out of time. I'm posting right after Jon so enjoy his post below.
So we're motoring right along in our trip and we've knocked off quite a lot of major attractions. It's gotten to the point where we're tired of museums for the most part and we seem to be more interested in just walking around cities. Well that's mostly true. Rewind a few days back (Jon's post below took place yesterday) to when we went to Florence with the sole intention of seeing David. We arrived in Florence around 4pm and we figured that since it was late in the afternoon and the musuem would be closing soon there wouldn't be much of a line. We got there and the line went down the block. It started slow at first but picked up and within an hour we were inside, our jaws on the floor, just marvelling at David. While we were in line we were joking how ridiculous it is to wait in line for a single sculpture but once we saw it, we knew it was worth it. The amount of detail is remarkable - you can see his veings, muscles and ribs! If you look at Craig's pictures you'll see one of me in front of David but you probably won't be able to make out any meaningful details since we had to be far away cause picture-taking was forbidden. In any event, David was definitely worth the wait.
I was hoping to write a longer post but I'm out of time. I'm posting right after Jon so enjoy his post below.