Goodbye Venice, Hello Florence

So I left Venice (and without seeing a single museum or church, bad Jenna). I did see the most amazing sunset while riding a twilight vaporetto around the city. I didn't actually do a lot while I was there, because it was a giant tourist trap. I simply couldn't afford to pay for the museums. I did pay to see the Palacio Ducale, after I walked pasted the 100m line for the basilica and turned the corner. It held both the apartments for the Doge and the council chambers, it was also attached to the dungeons by the bridge of sighs.

I'll have to make it up and go to a museum or to while I'm in Florence. Though I think I'll skip the three hour wait to see the David sculpture. I would like to see the Birth of Venus however.

So far I rather like Florence. I like it, but I don't love it. Perhaps people talked it up to me too much. Or maybe it's just the heat getting to me. It is rather hot, but I should suck it up, because it's only going to get hotter as I head south.

I just came back from the Duomo (saw one church in Florence anyway), which is incredibly beautiful outside, pale pink and dark green marble and quite stark inside. But mostly I've just been doing a lot of walking. I'm a bit burnt out on churches and museums.