Uffizi Day
Today was Uffizi Gallery day. This is the best Italy tip I can give you if you don't like lines. Use TickItaly.com before you leave the States and get your tickets in advance to any important site. It costs more, but what is your time worth here? Especially in high season you can wait up to five hours in line to get into the Uffizi. Also, make your reservation for 8:15 a.m., the first time you can request, because as the day wears on it gets more and more crowded. No surprise there.
The first time I visited the Uffizi ...
...I had just finished an art history 101 class, and I wandered from room to room saying, "That was in my beginning art textbook. That was in my beginning art textbook." No cameras allowed inside, but I took some pictures around the gallery.
And don't forget to visit the 300-year-old olive tree that was planted (well, I guess transplanted) in 1993 to commemorate the car bombing that destroyed part of the museum.
(Photos of around the Uffizi, the rooftop caffetteria, the entrance hall and the olive tree by me)
