It is International Women’s Day today & they are celebrating BIG in Florence. All museums are free for any woman to enter & all over the city women are being given bunches of Wattle (they call it Mimosa here), to show the beauty and strength of women.
We stumbled upon a pop-up bakery (The Mimosa Bakery), who had devine cookies. There were a bunch of women at the pop-up, celebrating Women’s Day & I mentioned to them this was very different to Women’s Day in Australia. All my experience of Women’s Day in Australia has been either at work (mainly in the ADF, but also attending some corporate Women’s Day breakfasts) or through Girl Guides, and that the women had to organise the celebrations themselves. The celebrations here seem much less corporate & much more authentic in their celebration of women (just my opinion). It was a lovely joyous celebration & we were grateful to join in.
We took a photo of Paddington with the cookies for Alice.
Back in the apartment the cookies we got to taste our cookies and they were delicious. The Mimosa Bakery is definitely worth exploring if you are in Florence when they are doing a pop-up store https://www.mimosabakeryflorence.com/
My Wattle (out of the plastic, it smells amazing - just like home)
At the Markets yesterday, every stall was decorated with Wattle!
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