Florence underground by Monika Csapo |
Street view by Monika Csapo |
Typisch by Monika Csapo |
Arno by Monika Csapo |
Ponte Vecchio by Monika Csapo |
Photo by Monika Csapo |
I became so Italian that I am keeping a
siesta now. I still like Florence a lot. The people are so friendly
and helpful here! I could find back to my hotel from the Uffizi
without a map, and found “my grocery shop” from yesterday for the
first try.
Today I was at the Ponte Vecchio, The
Museo Galileo and the Uffizi Gallery so far. The real
flow-experiences are not the ones when I take pictures of famous
sights, or hamster museums and paintings.
I noticed today that traveling teaches
me also to focus and slow down. There are so many things to see, and
you have to accept somehow that you can not see everything in couple
of days, and you also have to skip some things in order to get to the
ones which are meant for you to see.
Today the first flow experience was
when I got to the Arno river and the sun was shining and I saw only
the silhouettes of the buildings on the opposite side of the river,
and the water had this beautiful green color. In the Museo Galileo I
liked the Armillary sphere by Santucci the most.
The Uffizi was great, but a bit too
much of good to me. Right after I entered I escaped to the cafe on
the roof first, had a cafe latte, stared at the Duomo for a long time
and watched the birds jumping around. It was nice to sit there,
because I was a bit panicking when I entered and saw those endless
lines of sculptures and paintings, it was a bit overwhelming. In
addition to it they run out of maps, so I could not even plan what to
skip and what to check, and it all seemed a bit too much.
But afterward when I started to check
the rooms one by one I could sort out easily what I am interested in
and what I am not. I liked the Boticelli`s, Lippi`s, Rembrandt`s and
van Dyck`s the most. And my absolute favorite was La Primavera from
Boticelli. After I saw that painting I had the feeling that I have
seen what I came for, and I even went back to it for a second time to
feel it a bit more.
I noticed today that I changed a lot
lately. I do not try to capture each detail any more, I am more
trying to feel the atmosphere of the things I see, or the places I
visit. These are the memories what I store in myself. Of course I
remember the visuals too but when I think of what I saw, I remember
the feeling at the same time what I felt when I was there.
You find more photos from today noon under: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.565887546814305.1073741844.276514799084916&type=3&uploaded=1
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