Florence and Pisa

Sunday morning we hopped a train to Florence….because we could. It was raining all day, which was a bummer, but we finally saw REAL Italy. We saw the gorgeous cathedral of Florence and meandered through the tiny streets. We came along a cute Italian restaurant and stopped for a Calzoni. Another important sight in Florence was the old bridge. This bridge is the last in Europe to have stores and houses on the bridge itself. Around that area I bought some treble clef earrings from a man making them on the streets. It started pouring as we went to the “look out” spot. It was an incredible view but would have been better without all the rain. There is a huge leather market in Florence selling all kinds of items made of Italian leather. This was fun to walk around and attempt to barter down prices.

We jumped on the next train to Pisa…because we could. J We literally had about 2 hours to find the leaning tower, snap some pictures, and get back to the train station. We did JUST that…with a gelato stop of course. We saw the LEANING TOWER OF PISA and it was LEANING! We didn’t get the “perfect” tower pic and it was still raining but who really cares? I never thought I would be seeing so many world famous monuments in my life.

We got back to Rome late, about midnight. The buses were already off for the night so we started to walk back to the hostel. ROME AT NIGHT IS SKETCH…enough said. I’m sure we would have been fine, but after a while of walking through the scary streets Katy hailed the first cab we saw. We took a 1 mile 14 EURO cab ride. The driver totally ripped us off but at least we were safe.