Ognissanti
Today the perfect day to go to the Boboli gardens and the Palazzo Pitti. Except, it being a public holiday and all, of course they close the only large open space in the centre of Florence. But there was some kind of free festival of local produce including free wine. So let's not complain too much. So I walked up along to San Leonardo - you could be anywhere, in the middle of the Tuscan countryside, with no indication whatsovever that there is a city down in the valley below. Perfect autumn day, the stony pavement strewn with olives.

Then to Orsanmichele, where a free concert was in process, sitting on stone and taking in the decorations. Even if it was supposed to be a show-off place for the medieval guilds, it has a nice friendly air to it, a practical accommodating decoration, not awe-inspiring but uplifting. Then eating chestnuts in the backstreets all the way along to the open air marketplace where locals were standing in the street drinking chocolate.

Hopefully more art tomorrow, when things will actually be open...