D & I took our belated honeymoon to Italia and had a great trip. Picture perfect weather for all day walking tours of Firenze & Perugia. D's favorite was San Marco's frescoes by Fra Angelico, gems of the early Renaissance. In Perugia she encouraged me to explore the school I attended in 1973, L'Universita per Stranieri, and we found my classrooms, wow, memory lane!! We both loved the magical narrow streets & steps of medieval Perugia. Trip highlights: the Uffizi, Brunelleschi's S. Spirito, Perugia's Arco Etrusco (oldest known arch in Europe), S.S. Apostoli (a tiny OLD church in Firenze), S. Trinita's Ghirlandaio, S. Lorenzo's Michelangelo sculptures, S. Michele Arcangelo (an ancient church in Perugia, converted from a Roman temple, which I have dreamt about for 35 years!), Brunelleshci's Pazzi Chapel, S. Maria Novella's wild Fillipino Lippo frescoes, Brancaci chapel's Massacio & wandering up down the steep stairs of Perugia's narrow streets.
