Vaga-Blog - Volume I - Chez No-TV to Florence (May 31)

"FOR YOU, I HAVE SPECIAL PRICE!"

Life as a tourist. I spent the day in Florence, doing all the things tourists should – taking photos of Ponte Vecchio, oohing and ahhing at the Duomo (it really is spectacular), wishing I had followed everyone’s advice to buy tickets to see Michelangelo’s David in advance and getting wooed by merchants selling purses, belts, scarves, mobiles made of leaves, fake Gucci suitcases, miniature bicycles made of dental floss (happy birthday Dad!), jewelry, refrigerator magnets, Firenze soccer jackets, handmade pottery and crayon renderings of Tuscany. Each one kindly offers to give me a special price. Honestly, I’m so honored that they’d be willing to bargain with me just because I’m pretty that I can’t help but open my new fake Gucci wallet to support their cause.

Special prices offered just for me: 194
Offers I succumbed to: 1 (Real Italian leather! Mamma Mia!)
Euros spent on a caricature of myself for Mom’s Christmas gift: 80 (special price!)
Pieces of pizza consumed by moi at the all-you-can-eat-for-5€ pizza fest (suckers): 4 (with the conversion rate it may have been 6.)