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Pisa Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pisa, Italy
Pisa and Florence
This is a top pick! ... ; Ah well.... The rest of the morning passed uneventfully, apart from the free for all that was the solitary luggage carousel at Pisa airport - I had to watch my bag go past twice before I got anywhere near to picking it up. Train from the ...
To Pisa We Go
This is a top pick! ... after noon so we got to sleep in and took our time eating breakfast and checking out. After an uneventful and boring ride to Pisa we arrived around 4pm and found our hostel really easily. We were hit with a very unpleasant heat wave in our hostel though ...
What!? The Tower Isn`t Made of Pizza? Those Liars!
This is a top pick! After a horrible sleep we got up a little tired in the morning. The first half of the night was swelteringly hot and so we had to keep the windows open but this just let the mosquitoes in so I (Jackie) woke up with a ton of bites, although once again ...
Straighten Up
This is a top pick! · Pisa, Tuscany, Italy · GMT +1:00 hour Alternate Route Next stop Pisa, a short 1 hour train ride west from Florence and somewhere we had decided to drop in on before continuing onto Rome. The beauty of going to Rome from Pisa is that we'll be ...
David Has Big Hands
This is a top pick! One hour by train from Florence the town of Pisa well known world wide for it's Leaning Tower. Obviously we wanted to see one of the wonders of the world, although to be fair we didn't actually know it was one until we read it on a sign next to the ...
Lean... Yes it definatly does!!
This is a top pick! ... to agree... Definatly does not look real at all. Its kinda hard believing your actually standing here infront of the.... leaning tower of pisa! Again, something i've always known about my entire life, yet here i am looking at it just as i would look a ...
Ducatis everywhere
This is a top pick! ... . Saw the Duomo of Florence briefly. We drove, more, and some more, and then we arrived. We were way late. As this was Italy and not England, they were not bothered with holding the aeroplane up for us. Pity about the rest of the passengers, but that is ...
Pisa - THAT Leaning Tower.
This is a top pick! We had a two hour stop over at Pisa to see the leaning tower. We had seen this in 1999 but took the time to snap the obligatory photo. We then went to an ATM to get some money and discovered that Heathers debit card (which works on the Visa system ...
I can't believe it leans that much!
This is a top pick! A short stop in the little town of Pisa was incorporated on-route to Nice. We did not have time to explore much, except for the leaning tower - which really leans a lot more than we ...
A mean Lean
This is a top pick! ... we were working to in our tour of Europe - 19th august, 15:50 at the ticket office next to the tower in Pisa in Italy - we made it, just; it doesn't take long away from the office before deadline hitting becomes quite tricky. Gill obviously had problems ...
Under the Tuscan Sun... cloud...sun...cloud
This is a top pick! ... have a spare day to revisit it later. [This simply means that I will need to plan a return trip to Italy in the near future.] We moved on to Pisa which was only 22km's away however by the time we circum navigated the city three times we had covered ...
Leaning Tower of...what?
This is a top pick! ... for 2 weeks?). Secondly, it was my first trip on a European train (nearly as nice as the DC Metro). Woohoo! I had been to Pisa before with my high school girls (hi, ladies!) but it was in the middle of June and crawling with tourists. I also wanted ...
Pisa, Firenze, Venezia, Roma
This is a top pick! PISA Our purpose for being in Pisa was to meet Paul's parents, Rick & Kath, off their £9 Ryan Air flight from London. We had instructed Rick & Kath to travel light - a concept they are not familiar with. As we had an hour to spare we went to ...
Leaning Tower
This is a top pick! Pisa is only one hour train ride from Florence so i took a day trip here. enjoy the pics. :) ...
La Dolce Vita
This is a top pick! At last we have truly made it to the heart of civilization, Italy! Land of scrumptious food and gorgeous art history. Tina and I began our time here by flying into Milan where my good friend Massimo met us and introduced us to the wonders of ...
The Leaning Tower
This is a top pick! The Chookmobile was running good until we reached Pisa. As I drove in, I saw the leaning tower and remarked that it was there. We went to the tourist information, got a map, and then the van wouldn't start. Once again, we rang the local road service ...
Leaning Tower
This is a top pick! Unfortunately the Roman Discotheque strikes again and there are no surviving photos of me at the leaning Tower of Pisa that are fit to be shown. I can confirm it though, the tower does ...
Pisa
This is a top pick! ... Venice, Genoa and Amalfi. Each of these towns had both a merchant fleet and a navy, which controlled all the seas around Italy . Pisa reached its greatest peak of splendour in the XI and XII centuries when it expanded its power over the islands of ...
Like walking up stairs downhill.
Today is when I really noticed how broke Italy is. After breakfast in our B&B which consisted of coffee, toast, rolls and runny eggs (I gave my egg to Mark. I hate runny eggs and couln't choke this one down), we got dinged with a 50 ...
Lean on the Tower of Pisa
Tuscany, a region in Central Italy regarded as the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance was home to some of history's most influential people such as Dante, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei. Should you decide to spend some ...
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
We left Lucca early in the morning and hopped on the train to Pisa. This little city is actually the home of several of Italy's most prestigious universities, but we were there for one thing only: the leaning tower of Pisa. The leaning tower is part of a ...
Florence and Pisa
We travelled from Greece back to Italy and had a well earned relaxing sea day. Southern Italy we passed an active volcanic island with a village at the base, Very brave to live there. At Livorna we got a taxi for the day with 4 Canadians and ...
Lean on Me
... that people really go to Pisa to see is overshadowed -- in terms of grandeur and magnificence -- by another building, the Pisa Cathedral (Duomo). This cathedral was begun in the 11th century and is a spectacular work of ...
Pisa, Italy
... our way to Rome we went through Pisa and stayed in the city for a couple of hours. There really isn't a whole lot to see in Pisa other then the Leaning Tower, of course. So we payed 3 euro to have our backpacks stored at the station and we went in search ...
Counter Balancing in Pisa
... to the top? The three buildings also shone so brightly with their ornate marble exteriors amongst the tan and terracotta of Pisa buildings it was quite a sight. We marched purposefully past the Africans and managed to get tickets for going up ...
pisa
we went to pisa last night. we got there, looked for the hostel we had booked, and finally figureed out it didnt exist, and it was 1am and we had no where to go. luckily we found another hostel!!! we where pretty scared there for a bit. andrus had laid ...
Pisa
We stopped at Pisa for two hours, rushed to see the tower, took some stupid photo's and left! During a stopover on the way, I left my drivers licence at an internet cafe. It's now about three weeks later, and I still haven't called to get a new ...
Potluck
... I'm hoping we will be able to do a potluck again before departing. There's not too much else to tell. I need to start writing a paper... eww. Some things you can just never escape. Oh, I've attached the Pisa pictures and some other random ones, so enjoy! ...
Galileo and Gravity
... pizza oven, so you know it's going to be good, and it was. By far the best pizza we had in Florence. Pisa tour was booked with Viator and was another hit. We headed out there by bus with a tour guide who gave us a little history of ...
Pisa
... ). Good for us really the old converted convent was a wonderfully tranquil setting (great for smoothing ruffled kiwi feathers). Pisa is how we felt Rome should have been, well cared for, majestic, ancient buildings. The city was clean and ...