The final Florentine shopping fling!

On Sunday morning we set off on our last trip north, by train once again. The route is becoming familiar for some as we hurtled past Italy's largest lake and various picturesque hill towns. Once we arrived in Florence it was easy to refamiliarise everyone with the major landmarks - you can't really miss the Cathedral and its belltower (although funnily enough no-one was keen to climb it again!) and Piazza della Repubblica with its carousel. From these two places it was just a short stroll to the two markets and the many shopping opportunities. After all, there were still some scarves to buy!
However, our first stop was to meet up with Ting, one of our exchange students from last year who was hosted by Lauren and who had travelled down by train to meet us for the day. It was great to see her again. It must have been the day for reunions as I also caught up with a friend of mine and her baby daughter - Angela is another Italian teacher from Adelaide who is living over in Tuscany for the year with her family.
With all of the shopping exhausted (and some pretty tired people from yesterday's walk) we headed back to Perugia to begin our last week here - and the scary task of beginning to pack!