Charming Hotel Romantic Tuscany Lido Di Camaiore

Pisa photos here:
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Got to Rome just after 9am and then 10am train to Pisa.
Lockers at Pisa station are out of order so lugged my backpack to the leaning tower, took some photos and now slowly making my way back to the station stopping for coffee, food and beer along the way.

Forgot that northern Italy food options were ...

... for most of the journey.

After getting back to Florence and walking from the train station back to the hotel, we felt a little better (fresh air?). We got back to our room around 4:00pm and just relaxed for several hours, reading, snoozing, going online. I finally started feeling hungry later afternoon, but not Murray! Around 7:30pm, we felt well enough to take a long walk around our neighborhood. We found another great ...

... mais apres presque 900 ans, elle est toujours la. dans le meme espace, il y a la cathedrale et un autre batiment , tous ca, en marbre blanc. En dehors de cette attraction, pise possede encore une bonne partie de ces fortification. si non, c'est une ville etudiante, avec 3 universites,donc il y a quand meme pas mal de vie

... whatever we wanted from that room... This was at 3pm too, not like we arrived at some weird hour.
The "dorm" was just an apartment with 6 beds in 1 room, a kitchen and 4 beds in the room joined to the kitchen with no door between - check out the photos on facebook.
Glad we booked the cheaper 6 bed dorm and not the more expensive 4 bed!!!
Found out later that day they have another "dorm" downstairs with a 6 bed room and a double bed in ...

... and I had a wonderful 50th. Everyone sang to me in the small restaurant. Thank you everyone for following us and keeping us close with your wonderful comments. To sign off I will say that.....
"There is nowhere like Home".
Love Mick and Lisa

Kim had taken her grandma to Lucca last November and had fallen in love with the place.

We found a park not far from the city walls and then headed in for a look. We came across a chocolate festival in one of the piazzas and sampled a few beforw buying a hot cocolate drink...literally hot chocolate in a cup. It made me feel a bit sick.

Walking Lucca is like a big ...

... before descending a bunch of steps to come to town #4, Vernazza. It took me about 1.5 hours and it was noon by the time I got there. The view of the town as I was descending was just breathtaking. This town was much bigger and I was very happy to be able to get some cash from the ATM. The ATM’s in Manarola and Corniglia had not worked for some reason, and I was down to my last two Euros. So the first thing I did, of course, was buy some ...

... to open. just before it opened i went back to my room to grab my polartec jacket to keep warm. and on the way back i ran into the Americans again and they asked where to eat as the recommended place was closed and i said well there are really only 3 options that i know of. 1 i have tried and told them while the food was good i was accosted by the owners husband over there in the corner of the street...i realize accosted was not the right word...rather taken advantage of ...

... Maybe a cruise is the way to go for a quick overview of Italy. Who knows?! Pisa is a quick trip and there were about 500,000 tourists. When you see the tower in person, you cannot believe how far it is leaning! It's 5 meters. I can't believe they let people go up inside of it. It's all very regulated. Only 30 people are allowed inside every 30 minutes. The 30 people that went in before don't get to linger and have to ...

... right along the cliffs and we stopped at a couple spots and got some swimming in and the water is just amazing, cant say it enough, its just awesome. We got to our first town, Manarola, and I was thining most the villages would be pretty similair, but their all very dinstict. Manarola is a bit like Riomaggiore with a main street leading down to its marina, but the layout is very different. Corniglia, the 3rd village is up high on cliff overlooking the water and is the highest of the 5 ...