Today was even more eventful than yesterday, for two reasons: I learned certain invaluable information about the legendary bistecca al fiorentino, and I discovered a rare Florentine peasant food that I may have read about once and forgotten, and stumbled upon by sheer fortune!
Lorna and Melissa went to the Galleria dell'Accademia to see Michelangelo's famous David, and then they shopped for hours and hours in that true shoppers paradise. That gave me the freedom to pursue my own long-awaited foodie adventures.
But before that, we have to get out of Venice, sample more train travel, and arrive in a strange space in Florence (where, honestly, all spaces are strange), and finally deal with a European car rental.
We took a water taxi from the Hotel Colombina to the train station. I've never arrived at a train station by boat before!