A Wayfaring Chocolate Guided Tour of Florence’s Art Hot Spots

My dearest fellow art junkies, I feel it’s about time we finish up our European gallerying with a peek and a poke around some of Florence’s art-world hot spots. Over the following minutes (or hours, if you’re a terribly slow reader), I shall show you works from the Palazzo Strozzi (the “De Chirico, Magritte, Max Ernst and [...]

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Glimpses of Florence, Part Four

Talk about putting your best [building] face forward. Also, sometimes when I look at this photo with my head tilted to one side, the building reminds me of a train. Is that crazy-talk? I originally took this photo (and several other paparazzi-esque shots like it) because I fell in love with that cuddly-looking pink-tongued fluffy dog of wonderment. [...]

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A Trio of Supermarket Gelati from Florence

When I was in Florence a few months ago, I ate a lot of gelato from fantastic gelatarias. Almost every day, I would revel in its freshly-made-and-scooped-before-my-eyes creaminess whilst wandering around the city’s cobbled streets. Regular readers will know, though, that while I do love me some artisan, fresh, made-with-love, and/or fancypants foods, I also [...]

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Glimpses of Florence, Part Three

I’m a little bit loving the fact that I’ve been back in Australia for over two months, yet am still eking out travel posts. Let’s hear it for digital cameras and their capacity to take endless amounts of photos! (Even if said photos are making my computer teeter on the edge of collapse. I really should do [...]

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Glimpses of Florence, Part Two

Sometimes it feels wrong to be posting about Florence without simultaneously talking about gelato. Gelato was an integral part of my Italian experience, as most days involved  frozen delightfulness in one form or another.  My plan for the future is to remember posts such as this one recounting gelato highlights whenever I find myself journeying back to Florence [...]

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From the Mouths of Statue Babes (in Florence)

Once upon a time, I very generously shared with you the inner monologues of four female portraits. You’ve all heard of horse whisperers, and dog whisperers, and even baby whisperers, right? Well, I guess my secret is out. I’m an Art Whisperer. And because you can’t keep a good Art Whisperer down, today I’m bringing you the [...]

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Glimpses of Florence, Part One

Florence*. Florence, Italy, also known as the last leg of my four months of travelling. Now, some of you might be scratching your head and thinking “We’re in Florence now? How did we get to Florence?” If you are so scratching, I offer you some calamine lotion and then the link to this post, which [...]

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I Like My Gelato Like a Trophy Wife Likes Her Men: Thick and Rich

So far in my Florence travel recaps, I’ve shown you some slightly disappointing gelato from Festival del Gelato and some far better gelato and granita from Carabe. Surely, though, you must have known the gelato adventures didn’t stop there. Now, for a bit of a disclaimer, the following doesn’t cover every gelato adventure I had – just a [...]

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And Easter Went Off With a Bang

Someone needs to remind me, at regular intervals, to write the blog posts I’ve already promised to write. Otherwise we’ll find ourselves in 2016 and I’ll be adding “Write Second Macaron Post” to my “30 before 30″ list. And we wouldn’t want that, would we? That spot would be much better filled by, say, “Breed Pug-Poodle-Cross [...]

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This Gelato and David: 1, That Museum and Chocolate: 0

I’m currently torn between the fear of forgetting what happens in my days (this leads me to want to post travel stories constantly) and the fear of losing all my readers when I get back to normal non-travelling life in Canberra (this leads me to want to hoard my travel stories). Today, I seem to [...]

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