the plankman’s blog

There are things in life that speak to you at the right times… I was sitting on a northern line train in london, on my way back to my mate Aliyah’s place, when a group of rather loud ladies boarded and sat next to me. Two of them were going on and on to my neighbor about her the importance of her finding someone else – and being open to the idea in the first place. Then one of them decided to stop telling her what she has to do – and rather took a new angle: You need to be comfortable / satisfied with yourself and the fates will find you. Wisdom in those words. I agree and of course ended up chatting to the ladies. I offered myself to my neighbor – but she (and her crew) were all lesbians. Ahh well ;-) And here I thought the fates were smiling upon me!

daniel’s flickr library.

The images from the Florence experience can be found at theses two gallery locations – click on both images, cause they’re different gallery’s.

Highlights of the trip? Aside from the wonderful time I spent with my mom and dad, i was filled with the incredible urge to carve marble after being surrounded by so much magnificent work. The sculptures were hands down my eyes’ favorite pieces to stare at. I can honestly sit and let these hand crafted chunks of rock weight on my mind for hours. Specifically Michelangelo’s work. Its phenomenal to think that to be able to accomplish so much – sculpture, paintings, architecture…. Its rather numbing to imagine the kind of genius that existed in those days – people were capable to acheiving so much! What happened to the world???

Highlight exhitbits are at the following spaces:
- Bargello;
- Capello di Medici (San Lorenzo)
- Academia;
- sure i should include: uffizi, palazzo vecchio, duomo etc…
- Yellow Bar -> Cheap super tasty food

daniel’s flickr library.

We ended up stumbling into a mass on Sunday at the Duomo. We hadn’t yet been inside, and on sunday evening we noticed people walking in! So of course we followed them. Only to realize that we’d entered into a good old fashioned sunday evening mass at the Florence Duomo! It was quite interesting – I might have been more lively had I understood more than 20% of what was being said. It was just a great mistake.