The bus into town from the camping ground takes about 35 mins. Everyone is a little weary today. Tony has a sore throat. It is super hot wandering the streets but we enjoy Mercato Central for a bit before wandering past the Duomo and on past the Ufitzi to Ponte Veccio. We are surprised there are not huge queues for Ufitzi but given that everyone is so tired from the rough sleep we elect to bus back to our van early. We drive to the other side of Florence amd manage to find the cemetery where my Great Uncle James Copland is burried. It turns out he died seventy years ago this week. With so much celebration everywhere we go about 70 years of liberation it makes it so very sad to see that he died so close to the end of things. I don't know the story of how he died but he is buried next to another NZ cavalry member who died on the same day. Did one go out to help the other? It seems so sad that all these soldiers are buried so far from home.
Tony cooks dinner for us and we head off to find a quiet spot to sleep for the night. We end up on a residential street. Because we are camping alone we decide not to open the windows... Only the vents. It ends up being a very very hot night for us. Yikes.
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