Ah, Florence

I'm disappointed the busking didn't work out, because I love this city. I
have written more music in three days here than I did in two weeks in
Rome, and I think overall I may have written more music in Florence than
any other single place (although Jaime Haueser's foyer comes a close
second). This city is just a total inspiration, and I hope that at least
one of the neighboring cities of Perugia, Siena, and Lucca works out well
so that I can make excursions back here for a day here and there.

After finding the laws for Genoa online I looked them up for Florence, and
found something really bizarre. Genoa says things like "busking is
permitted in this neighborhood and along that street" while Florence says
"busking is permitted in front of this address". And to make it truly
odd, Florence treats musicians different from other performers. Normally
when there's a difference it's in the favor of musicians (we catch
friendly grief from other performers about that sometimes), but here the
pitches are better for non-musical acts. When I was first scouting
pitches I noted that the Piazza della Repubblica, for example, had good
traffic from 4-7 and was pretty much worthless after about 7:30. Other
shows can work there starting at 2 pm; musicians are only allowed from 8pm
to 11. Very, very strange. So today I went and busked the one allowed
afternoon pitch, which also had zero traffic, but it gave me an
opportunity to put together some of the music I've been working on over
the past few days.

In any event, the adventures continue!