thanks for posting it! I haven't been to Firenze in years, unfortunately. I seem to recall mostly eating in some sort of pasta version of McDonalds not too far from the river...

Thanks for the diary.

Also, do you have a link to larger versions of your pictures?  They're quite wonderful.
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I accidentally had a conversation in italian at lunchtime. I don't speak italian. - Merekat

Based on the strength of "dust-dry discus of dough", alone. Though the rest was good, too.

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You can build the most elegant fountain in the world, but eventually a winged rat will be using it as a drinking bowl.

Love the pic of the Arno - shame about the crane on the horizon, though.
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You can't fix anything, you can't change anything, so just tell them that everything is A. The Fuck OK. —Rogerborg

I've never read Tristram Shandy, but Uncle Toby's is the name of quite a common food brand (once company, now a part of Nestle) in Australia. They make breakfast cereals, muesli bars, and so on, all very wholesome family stuff.

I vaguely remembered this information coming into the rather funny Steve Coogan movie. I thought it was an obscure otherwise forgotten early comic novel - late 18th century pop culture; I didn't realise it was supposed to be one of the great novels in English. Still, it was a surprise to find it quite so full of dick jokes.

_{The Political Science Department of the University of Woolloomooloo}

Lombardy: Good
Everywhere Else: Shite

It was an unholy union of text and pulped wood that the Ancients used to distribute their blogs.

Tons of info for someone who's planning on visiting one day. Might print it out actually - I trust you more than Lonely Planet anyway.

Interesting about the Italian food, they seem to eat almost as much crap as us but there's a lot of really good stuff as well. When I was in Genoa I consistently ate the best food I'd eaten anywhere, ever. It's quite famous for its food though and not a tourist destination, which might have something to do with it.

I think pizza was invented in Naples, and went to America with the high immigration from the area. Not totally sure though.

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It's political correctness gone mad!