By Joe Harkins, on August 22nd, 2009
FIRST – TWO THINGS TO KNOW
1) To return to this home page from anywhere, click above on the box containing the words, “Two Weeks In Tuscany”
2) The posts are in Chronological Order, the way a journey runs, from the start to the end, instead of reverse-chronological order, the method common to blogs that put the [...]
By Joe Harkins, on September 16th, 2009
The Basilica San Lorenzo (also known as The Dom or the cathedral), at the heart of Florence – no it is not at the heart, I’d say it is the heart – is an astounding piece of art.
It is not only is achingly beautiful and awesomely executed, it is totally organic, growing directly out [...]
By Joe Harkins, on September 16th, 2009
We took a tour after dinner on one of those double-deck buses. Two hours, I recall. Maybe 8pm when we started. Dark out.
After passing around and through city streets, stopping next to shuttered churches and in empty city squares, the bus cut across the river and up a winding road that climbs a high [...]