The past few days have been a short break from the hippos with Mo and I stopping in Florence and Siena on our way down the hippos in Rome. We spent two days in Florence visiting the infamous Duomo (I made Mo climb all 463 steps inside the dome to the top!) and the Battistero nearby. We saw Michelangelo’s “David” in all his glory (did David REALLY fight Goliath naked? Anybody know?) and went to the Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti (built in the 15th C) to see the Galleria Palatina.
After two days in Florence we took the train to medieval Siena where we visited the Piazza del Campo (again making Mo climb to the top of the tower in the plaza for the view) and visited Siena’s amazing black and white duomo which is just awesome with its amazing marble flooring and relics. Tomorrow we are off to Rome and are both excited about the abundance of historical wealth the city holds for us.
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- Sarah Louise Galbraith
- Joined at the Hippo is an around-the-world travelogue created by Sarah Louise Galbraith, a photographer from Arizona. Sarah traveled on her own to 33 countries across the world from January 2004 - January 2005 photographing as many hippos in zoos as possible. What for? The photos are being hand-painted onto porcelain dinner service by Royal Copenhagen Porcelain. Juggling a strict itinerary (every four days was a new city ), she hassled taxi drivers, struggled with languages (what's hippo in Mandarin??), quizzed locals and bribed zoo keepers through 101 of the world's best and worst zoos. Her encounters ranged from frightening (hippo attacks in Kyoto and muggings in Warsaw ), to hilarious (meeting with hippo fanatics at the annual Hippolotofus Convention in Seattle). Sarah now works at National Geographic in Washington, D.C.
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