the Uffizi, Michelangelo's David and the 7 hour designer outlet shopping tour …

The nearest co-op supermarket was in the next town of Impruneta, 4 kms away from the Villa (in San Gersole). It was here that we went grocery shopping this morning. Chris had an urge to cook as there was a kitchen in our apartment and he was tired of the Italian continental breakfast. Bring on the scrambled eggs!

First day in the city, took a stroll in the neighbourhood around our hostel. Unexpectedly, we came across the statue of Michelangelo. Bought postcards of the culturally and artistically inclined city :) How I wish I can buy some posters of these gorgeous paintings instead of only a collage in a postcard. Perhaps next trip here, I can finallyIn this reconstruction, the two main whales in the center are Coronodon havensteini, the lower two in the background are Echovenator sandersi, and the birds in the sky are Pelagornis sandersi (false toothed birds with a wingspan near 21.3 feet).

Geologist Mark Havenstein has always had a knack for finding rare, important fossils. As a child, he found a tooth for the largest shark that ever lived — megalodon — on a beach in Spain. Over the years, Havenstein continued to collect fossils, eventually donating his private collection to the College of Charleston and starting the business Lowcountry Geologic. Those efforts only foreshadowed what may be his most noteworthy discovery yet.

While scuba diving in South Carolina's Wando River looking for shark teeth, Havenstein found the remains of a fossilized