Florence, Italy, Day One and Two

Here's the first in a series of guest blogs by my beloved husband, Jim:

Day One

The Cannon Chronicle  went to Lexington Graphics Thursday night. I saw the proof Friday. It should go into the mail tomorrow or Tuesday. This issue has some very good parts (when have I ever thought a Chronicle issue was not great?). [Mary's note: this is Jim's primo newsletter of his grandparent's (Mary and Alan Cannon) family. It has 100 subscribers and is published twice a year. Let me know if you'd like a subscription: $10/year, domestic postage.]

International air travel seems very spacious and relaxed so far, compared to the flying buses of domestic flights. We’ll see how I’m doing after flying all night. We land in Munich tomorrow and then fly to Florence. Our Airbnb is at Via Calzaiuoli 11, within a five-minute walk of the Duomo. We’ll be there the whole time. Uncle Jeff and Aunt Nelly arrive Thursday (Jeff, is that right? What time?). We arrive back at Logan at 9 p.m. on Apr 13.

I really enjoyed the call from Sam and Savannah last night.

Day Two

It’s Day 2 of the Florence trip, but we’re not in Florence yet. It’s 4:14 a.m. in Boston and 10:14 a.m. here in Munich. Our flight to Florence boards in about 30 minutes.

The A350 was very nice. The seating is 3-3-3. We had an aisle seat and a middle seat in the middle rank. The flight was quite empty, so I moved to an unoccupied row in the back, and slept for four hours. Mary stayed put and also had three seats to lie on.

The last thing we did before boarding in Boston was buy tickets to an performance of favorite numbers from Italian opera, at the Chiesa Santa Monaca on the south side of the river, about 0.7 miles from the Duomo. We’ll walk there. The walk through city streets and the opera numbers should be a good intro to Florence!