A Pizza in Pisa…
Another weekend away in Italy last weekend. This time we nipped off to see what we thought of Florence and Pisa…
Again it was a weekend of walking, but Florence appeared to be a lot more compact than Rome so the walking did not hurt the legs as much (but they still hurt a bit), either that or we have just gotten used to it. Florence has some very cool streets to walk around and it has a nice feeling to it. The pizza’s are pretty good too. But for dinner one night (when we didn’t have pizza) the chef had over done it on the garlic, so lets just say there we quite a few mints required the next day.
What we’ve realised now is that Italy really shuts down on Sundays! Like really shuts down! You’d think that there might be a tourist office open at least in Pisa, but no! Heaps and heaps and heaps of tacky souvenir stalls, but no info! But not many people around either, which was nice.
I think the highlight for me ended up being the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and I suspect that for Bec it was seeing the statue of David up close and personal.
Of course the picture we have posted is one of the two replica’s of the statue, as you are not allowed to take pictures of the real one. This happened in Rome to when in the Sistine Chapel – no photo! (though only in the chapel – pretty much everywhere else in the Vatican gallery it was fine) How do we feel about that? Mixed feelings really I guess. I get that they are not sure what the infra red light does to things, but I am also sure it is just so people have to buy a postcard or a souvenir of it! But the statue is quite impressive, and it did not disappoint. The detail is pretty fantastic. And the tower really does lean! I was expecting to be underwhelmed, but it was much more impressive than expected. Especially as I wasn’t expecting all the other buildings and square around the tower too.
Another random highlight for Bec was the dinky small electric buses that tootled around Florence. So cute!
Oh and the ice cream we had too was worth it, there’s something about Italian ice cream, it truly is probably the best in the world (well from the countries we’ve managed to sample from anyway).