Firenze, I return

I'm here after 28 hours of travel and frankly happy to be staying anywhere for a while.  I am especially pleased, though, to be in Florence, because I love it here.

Though I'm exhausted, I went walking for a bit just to see familiar sites, check out the changes, and pick up some water.  I also shot a quick pic of the lovely Basilica Santa Croce.

The square in front of the church is usually thronged with people, but today it was, as you can see, cordoned off, I am assuming for construction.

Time to crash and infuse my body with a metric ton of sleep.