I had absolutely no problems at the airport. I was expecting to be told that my bag was too big and be forced to pay 12 pounds because of the insane baggage limitations. Fortunately, nobody seemed to care how big my bag was.
At the Pisa airport, I spent a frantic 40 minutes or so trying to find an atm. I found one upstairs in an out-of-the-way nook and only later realized there was an atm next to the train tickets line. I also spent forever waiting in line to buy train tickets only to find that I could have bought the same ticket in a couple of minutes without waiting in line at the automated ticket machine outside at the tracks.
Pisa itself is uninteresting with the exception of the leaning tower. Apparently there are three leaning towers in Italy, but the one in Pisa is the most touristed/famous. I had to walk a kilometer or two to the tower. And there it was, next to the cathedral. Leaning. A lot. I took a few thousand photos, but didn’t bother to climb up. Instead I sat on the grass (I stepped over a chain and past a Keep Off the Grass sign to get to it) and took off my shoes. Locals were hanging out, playing soccer or talking. Tourists too were sitting on the grass, but I believe that there were more locals than tourists on this forbidden grass.
The leaning tower. Is it leaning or is it me??
The leaning tower and the cathedral. It's easy to tell how much the tower is leaning when compared to the cathedral.
The most eventful thing that happened in Pisa was being hit in the arm by a flying French soccer ball. After a really long time (like 30 seconds), some guy apologized.
Off to Florence.
It started raining while I was on the train. My umbrella came in handy, in particular to ward off anxious umbrella vendors (yes, they exist and pop out in droves at the first sign of moisture). I walked to the hostel immediately where Greg and I had decided to meet.
Both starving (he had traveled from Venice and had arrived about an hour before I did), we asked reception for a restaurant recommendation and headed out for a place with a fixed price menu. The pizza was pretty good.
Plan for Florence:
Uffizzi Gallery
Accademia
Market
Bird’s Eye View
Duomo
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