March 13, 2023 - Geocaching day.

Another sunny day in the 20 ‘s. Today we took the bus to a part of the city that we hadn’t gone to before. We went to the far end of Cascine park to cache. Tomorrow there is a market at the beginning of the park, but it is supposed to rain. It is the biggest market with over 100 stalls and is over 1 km long.  If it rains too hard, we will go next Tuesday. So far every time they have announced rain we get pouring rain during the night and in the morning it’s just a bit of drizzle here and there. The park is 3.5 km long and it is quite a way from here, so we decided to do the caches that were further away. It was very quiet in that section of the city compared to our section. We walked in the tranquility of the park crossing at the various bridges to go for caches along the way. The park belonged to the Medici family who used it as hunting grounds, agriculture, and cattle breeding. 

Porta Plato city gate while waiting for the bus.

Walkway under the highway

Street art under the highway

View from the bridge.

Lots of chickens.

Community gardens.

Interesting art in the park.

Starting to look like spring.

One of the crossings was a pedestrian bridge underneath the highway. That path took us to what we assumed was a community garden. All the lots were divided by gates, ropes, poles etc. and people were turning their soil and planting. The park follows the river and there are little islands here and there. We did about half the park so if we go again, we will be able to do the closer ones. The bus was quite a ways from the end of the park so hopefully the next time we won’t have to walk as far.

All in all, it was a nice day most of it in nature. We found 9 caches out of 10 so a pretty good day. We arrived back at the end of the day, so we went for gelato where we found a new favorite, kefir and passion fruit, A new favorite. 

What do you think André?

We are starting to feel a bit at what a lost tourist must look like to locals. We have helped a few times where we see a couple looking at their phones and maps with a confused look on their faces. We are familier enough with the city that we can easily point them in the right direction.

Nice flowers on our patio.