Pisa, Pisa

Day 15:

Well even with my slight hangover I was up at around 7:30am, although to be fair when I looked at my watch I thought it said 8:30am, I didn’t realize I had cheated myself out of an hour of sleep until I was well into breakfast. The hostel provides a nice hot breakfast (some eggs, cheese, maybe a slice of bacon and some fried rice) here with the price of your room, one of the better hostel meals I have seen. Sometimes you’ll be told breakfast is free only to be given a 3 day old roll and some watered down orange juice.

I meandered over to the train station looking for a train to Pisa after breakfast and found one that left in ten minutes. After the hour long train trip I arrived in Pisa and had about a 20 minute walk through town to find the elusive  Leaning Tower of Pisa, and the church on the grounds where tower sits on. Well I really couldn’t have been a better morning, it was clear and warm, the only sad part is I didn’t get anyone to take my picture in the obligatory “I’m holding up the tower” pose. I found a mean sandwich shop on the way back to the train station and had a calzone and a tuna panini for quite cheap, 4 euro for both.

The rest of the day was spent just wandering (for those of you who can’t tell yet this is one of my favorite activities), checking out the late night marketplace and enjoying a glass of vino with a “Fruit of the Sea” pizza that came complete with clams and mussels in their shells on my pizza. It was spectacular. I grabbed some beer on my way back to the hostel and played chess with my new Brazilian friend Gabriel, I lost.

I think tomorrow I may try again to head to the Galleria degil Uffizi, but it will actually require me to be up quite early to head to the giant line.