At Ronnie's brilliant suggestion, we went out and saw Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince last night at a beautiful old theater in the middle of Florence. As someone in the lobby said, "I think every English-speaking person in town is here." And I can vouch for that, at least among the 15-22 year olds. We were in the distinct minority in there as so-called adults. The movie was in English with Italian subtitles, which is slightly distracting but not a big bother. The movie was terrific and I didn't particularly like this book. It suffers from the same problem that the second books of trilogies have. I guess you could call it penultimatitis. It has a plot of its own, but mostly serves to set up the final book. Of course in this case the final book is in 2 movies, so who knows what that'll be like.

After the movie we walked around in the Plaza della Republica, which was lit up bright and full of people as if it were a Saturday night, though it was Wednesday. We strolled for a while, got gelato and came back to our quasi-AC apartment.

I haven't posted pictures for a while because there is no photography at all allowed in the Uffizi and the Accademia. That's why I linked to images of what we saw instead.

Here's a few more though-

Around Town in Florence