Euro18: Duomo

And thus it was that at 2.25 p.m. on Saturday, July 7, as the plane (yes, plane, with propellers and everything!) was landing in Firenze, I first caught sight of the Duomo. And I nearly cried. Here’s the view from my hotel room, on the executive floor of the Hilton Metropole:

Euro18: Friday at museums

With work taking up all of Thursday, and a business dinner on Friday evening, I took some time on Friday to go to the Kunstshistorische Museum (an art museum) and also to the royal treasury of the Habsburgs. The art museum has a major collection of Flemish paintings, and some Klimt murals. This Tower of