Back to the sunny (!) UK

Back home again and it looks like we brought the Mediterranean sun back with us! Here's a handful of the inevitably *huge* stack of photo's we took over the week. I think the digital photography age now means we don't discriminate at all - just take half-a-dozen when one well-chosen one would have had to do in the past.




These are of the well-known Pisa and the lovely town of San Gimignano. The latter is a historic town sitting on top of a hill famous for it's towers earning it the nickname of the 'medieval Manhattan'.





The first of these two is of the Ponte Vecchio in Florence looking like I imagined to be an upmarket London Bridge (before it burnt down in Samuel Peyps time) - now it's packed with very expensive jewelry shops. The second is of the famous Campo in Sienna, the site of the crazy annual horse race which is essentially a representation of a historic 'turf war' between the 17 rival subdivisions (or contradas) of the city.


Lastly, here's one I'm quite pleased about - it's a 'classic' Tuscany countryside shot. Can't remember exactly from which tower this was taken, I just recall climbing an awful lot of steps over the course of the week.

B.t.w. Andy, I noticed your last post was still in 'draft' did you just forget to publish it, or were you still 'fine-tuning' your message?