Those who were reading our blog last year will remember that the apartment where we were staying was accessed through 5 doors that could be locked. There are only three locking doors here. First you have the main entrance on the street.
This takes you up the stairs to the 2nd locked door (seen from the outside on the left, and from the inside on the right). This is the most secured door.
I do not know if the incidence of breaking and entering is greater in Italy than in Canada, but security is taken very seriously here. This 2nd door takes you to an anteroom or vestibule where the 3rd locked door (seen below) opens to our apartment. In the same vestibule is another door to the landlady's own apartment. Her name is Federica, and she seems quite accommodating.
Inside the apartment is a corridor,
with three small rooms on the left - the bathroom (with a bathtub and shower, instead of just a shower).
A utility room where you find the "lavatrice". We have already done a laundry. The laundry soap comes in a small plastic pouches. You throw one in with the clothes, without breaking it. I suppose the pouch breaks down in the water as you do not find any trace of it in the clothes.
The last small room is the kitchen.
It is followed by the main room which is a combination dining-room and living room.
It is actually quite a large room which faces east.
There are also two bedrooms. One large and one extra large (18x22 feet?).
Both bedrooms have mosquito nets. There are mosquitoes in Florence and not only in summer as we have already seen one.
The smaller bedroom has a clothes closet fitted in the wall (on the left - with painted doors). But the large bedroom has a huge wardrobe (with Lorne demonstrating how high are the coat hangers).
Most of the flooring is traditional red Tuscan tiles.
However the dining- living room floor is covered with terrazzo.
From the bedroom windows, you see across the road (which is very narrow) the windows of one of the Caponi palaces (you cannot see it in the picture but "LUDOVICUS CAPONIUS" is engraved below the pediment of each window).
That is it for the apartment. If you have any questions, let me know!
This takes you up the stairs to the 2nd locked door (seen from the outside on the left, and from the inside on the right). This is the most secured door.
I do not know if the incidence of breaking and entering is greater in Italy than in Canada, but security is taken very seriously here. This 2nd door takes you to an anteroom or vestibule where the 3rd locked door (seen below) opens to our apartment. In the same vestibule is another door to the landlady's own apartment. Her name is Federica, and she seems quite accommodating.
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| The vestibule with, on the left, the door to our apartment |
with three small rooms on the left - the bathroom (with a bathtub and shower, instead of just a shower).
A utility room where you find the "lavatrice". We have already done a laundry. The laundry soap comes in a small plastic pouches. You throw one in with the clothes, without breaking it. I suppose the pouch breaks down in the water as you do not find any trace of it in the clothes.
The last small room is the kitchen.
It is followed by the main room which is a combination dining-room and living room.
There are also two bedrooms. One large and one extra large (18x22 feet?).
Both bedrooms have mosquito nets. There are mosquitoes in Florence and not only in summer as we have already seen one.
The smaller bedroom has a clothes closet fitted in the wall (on the left - with painted doors). But the large bedroom has a huge wardrobe (with Lorne demonstrating how high are the coat hangers).
Most of the flooring is traditional red Tuscan tiles.
However the dining- living room floor is covered with terrazzo.
From the bedroom windows, you see across the road (which is very narrow) the windows of one of the Caponi palaces (you cannot see it in the picture but "LUDOVICUS CAPONIUS" is engraved below the pediment of each window).
That is it for the apartment. If you have any questions, let me know!
Looks like a great place and best of all, it's in Italy!! I hope to see you at the Fling. :o)
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