Several weeks back, I published a blog post on my talk at the ACM CHI conference, in Florence, Italy. For Andrea, who asked, and for any other interested parties, here are the slides for the talk I gave.
Let's face it, Florence is beautiful. But it's a noisy city, much like Boston. We were extremely lucky with our hotel room. There were only two balconies in the hotel (at least on the front), and we got one of them. The room had high ceilings covered in dark wood panels, and tall doors onto the balcony that must have been two hundred years old. The people were nice. Everyone was willing to speak English to us, and they were happy to help us try their cuisine. I've returned with an entirely new appreciation of pasta.
The weather was sunny on Sunday and Monday, and while it sprinkled a little bit on other days, we were never in a downpour -- actually, I think there was one hard rain, but we missed it while we were eating dinner. Tom and Rachel traveled with me, which sounded like a good idea when we booked the tickets, but they were both suffering from the flu while we were there, and wished I had left them at home. That said, we saw a lot of Florence when they were hopped up on Advil and Benadryl.
We took a lot of pictures. I think we printed 164 in all, but there were many that didn't make it to the photo printer.