Garden day

There is a society called "ASSOCIAZIONE DIMORE STORICHE ITALIANE SEZIONE TOSCANA" (the sites in Italian,use Google translate or something) which,look after the private gardens in Tuscany,sort of like The National Trust,except that the gardens are only open at specific times of the year.

It was a nice warm morning and the groups where going round all ready going round.Luckily the previous day we had been fore-warned that people would be going round all day long,but even so,it was still a bit of a surprise when groups seemed to vary from 20 to (seemingly)100rds of people!



It was like being in a zoo,as they kept taking pictures of our house,like they where taking photos of a bats cave or something.The reason our garden,1 of 24 in Florence,was open was because once a year ADSI (see ↑) makes sure gardens such as the one we're in are open,on a sort of open day.As our garden wasn't the only one open,we decided to go to"Giardino Corsi Annalena".





It was nice,and very formal,the sort of garden that has been planned for people to look round.Quite allot of the garden was peoples houses,which blocked off bits of the garden,making it feel vastly small.There was a wall overlooking the road,and we could see straight into part of our garden!



After finishing looking round the garden,we went back to our house.By this time our garden had closed for the day,and was quite outside the gates.Later that evening,the last tour came round.It was a formal one,you could tell by the way that they were wearing suits and stuff.I just hope that they hadn't been wearing the suits all day,as it had been hot!