Blogs from Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, Europe - page 16

The first stop in our trip through Italy was Pisa. We landed late in the afternoon, and immediately picked up our bags and started walking to the city center. Our plan was to stay in Pisa only until around noon of the following day. Looking back I think that was enough, considering that our intention was not so much to get to know in detail each location, but to get a high level overview of Italy. In about 30 minutes we were able to find our way to the Hostel we had booked (Michele Guest House). We found that even though it was around 15 minutes away from the main attractions, it was really only 100 meters away from the railway station - very convenient. The young lady that met us (Michele herself maybe?) was very ... read more

A new Pen stick has been sourced and we are back up and running. For quickness we have pulled together a few days and nights as we write from an Internet cafe in Lisbon.................................... Ended up at the port of Livorno yesterday and visited Pisa. A very strange site when we saw a buliding that had been built by Stewart Milne...........Very lop- sided. ps..........Mega Hot too We have hit a major problem.............. The USB memory stick has picked up a virus at one of the Internet cafe´s we used so unless we get hold of another one we will not be able to post piccies!!... read more

Hey all, This is basically a short blog just so my lil map says i've been to pisa! This was a stop over on the way to Florence. I literaly got to the train station, saw that i had and hour and half to get to the tower before the next train and then made a mad dash to the tower....with my backpack still on....it was sooo heavy, so heavy. About 5 mins into it i regretted being cheap and not renting the locker. I met two irish girls who were awesome and led me to the tower all along chatting about italy, australia and how we were exploiting pisa by just seeing the tower..all in the funny accent of course! Got to the tower, ditched the pack, took the pushing photos and left struggling again ... read more

Ok lets face it...Pisa is a boring place! Once you've seen the tower, you've seen everything! Surrounded by LOTS of tourists and of course tourist stalls that only sell stuff you definitely WON'T need, I am not even sure you want to see that. Ok... a walk along the river ain't that bad, but if you have to decide how much time to spend in Pisa and at other places as f.e. Verona there is no way you wanna spend one more second in Pisa! So please do yourself a favour and delete Pisa from your travel plan and add "more time to spend in Verona". Why? Because this place is B E A U T I F U L! Not only the fact that you can see the real balcony of Juliet (sorry ladies, Romeo ... read more

Today we started the Italian part of the tour! It was a beautiful hot day again. We left Nice and dropped in at Monaco for a short while. We went inside the cathedral where Princess Grace is buried. We also saw the palace of the Grimaldis, the flag was flying which meant that Prince Albert was in town. We then drove on to Pisa! Coaches aren't allowed to get too close to the tower anymore because they are so heavy so we got off the coach at a carpark and then headed in by a little street train. Once near the tower we were left to our own devices for an hour or so. We walked through all the stalls to the tower (the place was really busy) and we took photos. We tried to take ... read more