There’s a shop in the center of the city that sells the very coolest home decorations ever. I love the color emerald and so my eye was automatically drawn to this current display.

I’ll take everything in green, per favore!

The objets in pink and gold are also nice. So, wrap them up too.

Nowadays in Florence there are groups of tourists throughout the calendar year. It used to be only certain months, but since Covid, it never seems to stop. This group, following their guide like ducklings after their mother, serves as an excellent example of the type.

A few blocks over I ran into this lovely young woman who is my classmate in language school. She had just picked up her 3 year old daughter from preschool. Aren’t they lovely!

A Goth clothing store was being guarded by 3 ferocious dogs, also quite goth despite their diminuitve size. I wonder, did the owners choose these dogs for their goth coloring, or was it a coincidence? Comment below and tell me what you think!

Below, just because the font is handsome and it is a very cool number:

Walking by a street corner that I’ve walked by at least 100 times or more, I noticed for the first time this plaque which tells us that a valiant partisan died here in 1944, killed by the Nazi-Fascists. Oh, the painful memories this city bears, like so many others in Europe.

Translated by Google:

Not far away is a tabernacle, memorializing another human atrocity, the crucifixion of Christ. The attached label identifies the century in which this work was painted as the 17th. Again. Wow.

From the serious to the ridiculous. I had the opportunity to feel this feeling below this week. It didn’t make me happy, but it was necessary.

And finally, some very French news: