When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie,

Today we trained to Florence.  We left Biel on the 7.20 am and we had three changes on the way.  The first train left on time but arrived in Bern late.  We had a short turn around for that one so we were a bit worried about catching our connection to Brig as we had to go from platform 5 to platform 9.  Luckily the train coming into Brig was 10 minutes late so we managed to catch it.  We figured we had a 40 minute gap on our train change in Milan so we'd be fine.  No.  The 10 minute delay at Brig turned into a 40 minute one into Milan so we missed our connection to Florence.  We even did running from platform 6 to platform 16 but still too slow!  So we went and talked to the lady in the booking office and got on the next train which was an hour later.  Whew!  This was a rapid train.  I didn't realise how rapid until I looked up and saw this:

Sorry about the quality but when you're going 300k it's hard to take a good shot!

We also spent a lot of the last part of the trip in tunnels.  Italy is pretty with lots of old buildings, like a lot of the places we have seen.

Also there is no more snow.

We are staying in an apartmentwhich is handy to churches, restaurants, the river and the statue of David.  We are going to see him tomorrow before we head off to Rome.

After dropping our suitcases off we headed out for a walk.  Turns out we are quite close to the Duomo so we headed off there.  Wow!  What a building!  It takes up the whole block and is made with green and white stone.  It is almost better than York Cathedral!  After that we headed down to the river and then wandered back to our apartment.  Dinner tonight will be across the road, I think, at the restaurant owned by the people who own this apartment.  I'm looking forward to eating Italian food in Italy.  I love pasta!

On a side note, last night was so clear that we could actually see stars.  We could see Orion which was the other way around, of course.  It was great to finally be able to see stars up here.  Tonight it is also clear and we were able to see the moon when we were out earlier.  It also doesn't get dark as early here as it did in the UK.  But it does still get darker quicker than back home.  It was dark by 5.30 tonight.