Evenings are a wonderful time for Abbey Road students. With classes done for the day and temperatures dropping in the city, it is time relax and enjoy Italian culture! Last night students did this when they went to Kitsch Deux for aperitivi. An aperitivo is a drink (non-alcoholic, of course, in our case!) that stimulates the appetite, and in Italy you can order just one drink and gain access to an assortment of free, small food items. Little squares of pizza, slices of fruit tart, vegetables marinated in olive oil, cheese, you name it! Of course the most important ingredient in aperitivi is good company, which, as you can see from the photo above, our students have figured out! Food isn't the only way to have a great time, though, and students often do projects or visit museums in the evening hours as well. Early this week a group went to make their own Florentine ceramics, and later tonight another handful of students will do the same. What better memento of one's time in Florence than a handmade (and personalized!) piece of pottery? Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria doesn't close until 11:00, so last night a group of students went and experienced this magical place in the already-magical hours when the stars come out. It's hard not to think of grand parties and balls when walking through a capacious space like this. As one student said to me, "I know I can't take it all in right now, because there's just too much to see!" The Palazzo Vecchio also has small spaces to discover, and in the quiet of the evening, when most of the visitors have left, it is possible to be alone in a tiny chapel, just as a member of the Medici family might have been 500 years ago. And if you get tired of looking at frescoes, sculptures, gilded ceilings, and Latin inscriptions, there is always the view from the window: Brunelleschi's brilliant dome for the Florentine cathedral. Plenty to see and do at the end of a busy day, and plenty of inspiration for the next one.
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