After getting back from Perugia I cabbed back to mama’s to drop off my bag. It felt like I added ten pounds to it but I am pretty sure I didn’t buy that much chocolate (only 8 pounds my gelato   Me and David.   Allori paintings  or so). It only took me a few minutes and about half a dozen tries to get the door unlocked then I was off to see the sights.

I headed out to the monthly antique flea market with just a small detour (3 blocks) to get gelato. I had not had any in a couple of days and needed to catch up. I know you are saying that I made up for it with chocolate and that would be true but I am on vacation and should be able to have dessert every day if I want.

I made it to the market with no problems but it was a little to junky even for me. I walked through most of it and was about to give up when I saw some great war postcards. I bought a couple WWI cards and headed out. Then I found somethings I had been hunting for as a gift. One was really nice and a bit expensive but they came down on the price and I bought them both. Very excited about them but since they are a gift I can’t tell what they are but they were the only two I have seen so far on this trip.

From the market I headed to the Accademia. Of course I wanted to see the David again but really was going to see the Alessandro Allori paintings that are hung right by it. I feel in love with them on the last trip and was looking forward to seeing them again. Allori studied botany and uses flowers in most of his paintings. They are also usually more about women and he paints beautiful faces. The no photo ban from the last trip has been lifted so I have some pictures of David and the Allori paintings. The pictures don’t do them justice but they give the idea of the work.

After the Museum it was starting to get dark so I headed back to the duomo to find someplace for dinner. It had been a long time since my second tomato thing in Perugia. (No it didn’t make it to the train ride. I ate it as soon as I got to the station a little less than 2 hours after I ate the first one.). However, no one was eating at any of the restaurants yet. People here eat way later than we do. Not as late as in Argentina but not on my time schedule either. At least they were opened unlike in Perugia. I could have gone to any of them but the only thing worse than eating alone is eating alone in an empty restaurant. I just wasn’t up to it so I shopped instead. The brown purse I looked at early was calling my name so I went back and bought it and picked up a few gifts as well. I decided it was getting too dark to wait on the restaurants so I just grabbed a prosciutto sandwich and headed back to mamas.

Not sure how eating on my own is going to work out his week with it getting dark so early. There are not a lot of choices by the house. However it will be nice not to race home at 5.

not sure why the photos went in the middle but too tired to deal with it now  Krissee, these are the best hands I have seen on this trip.