Di Stefano Hotel Pisa

... a browse through their beer selection and as I was doing so the waitress extolled the virtues of the Aventinus Eisbock.
She said it was a 12% beer that still had a Belgian fruity quality but with the 12% kick.
Had to give it a go and after half a glass on top of the 9% tripel I just had before am really feeling that kick as I write this!!!
Lucky she gave me some bread and crisps to go with the beer...

11.27.09 A Quicky, Sicky Day Trip To Pisa

So… Murray and I woke up this morning, both feeling a bit off (Murray again – me still). It is the WORST thing to be traveling when you're sick – and stomach stuff is the pits… We grabbed some toast at our hotel breakfast buffet, and ultimately, decided that we could power on for our planned day trip to Pisa – in retrospect, probably not a great idea!

Pisa, Tuscany, Italy annalisamurray

partie tot ce matin pour faire les 4.5 heures de train entre milan et pise, nous avons traverser plusieurs petit tunel. le paysage de la toscanne est beaucoup moins plat que ce que nous avons vue du nord-est de l'italie.

une fois nos bagage depose a l'auberge, on est partie vers la fameuse tour de pise. effectivemnt, elle ...

Cinque Terre photos here:
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Stayed at Affittacamere Patrizia Hostel in Rio Maggiore in Cinque Terre and wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
When we got to the Hostel it was just an office and no one was there. Our keys were stuck to the door with instructions on how to get to our dorm room. There was another set of keys there too so we could have taken those too and ...

We are finally home and it is actually Nov. 20th. We finally got in last night around midnight and could not download anything for the last several days because WiFi is too advanced for the small town we were in. It was the most relaxing of all the ...

... are getting an early flight back to the UK boo hoo think I want to steal danielle and not let her go home. We spent the evening packing things and generally just messing around. I got a bit upset over the fact that I am not sure I can go to Greece in Jan and leave Danielle for so long but we had a really cool chat and worked out a plan so that I can go and she can come and stay and not be apart for that long.

After leaving Riomaggiore, we stopped in Pisa for the sole purpose of seeing the tower. It was smaller than I expected, but still pretty cool. It definately leans. The architect must have went to the University of Amsterdam - yes, brutal joke but hey Im trying.

We got our touristy pictures - Jyles and Richard made me move around un-neccessarily in order to get the picture, people were laughing. Then we left. Im sorry to say but Pisa has the tower.

... and finished off with a swim at the mineral water spas. That day exhausted the hell out of us and we really felt too lazy to go on the 10 km walk the next day but as we were guests and really enjoyed hearing about the town (Barbara and Ugo are quite passionate about what they do - which is nice and a little bit rare - they have a wealth of local knowledge between them) - we decided in the end to suck it up and go. Montepulciano was the main stop for the day, a nice if a little ...

... nice. The owner actually drove us to the leaning tower. Honestly I was disappointed. Yes it was leaning and I guess that was cool but it was so much smaller than what I expected. I still got a lot of pictures. Plus I was the guinea pig for all the "catching the tower before it falls" shots, so that's why there are so many and why they are all bad. We got some souvenirs after that and went to look for some cheap food. We saw a place selling pizzas for 4 and 5 euros so we went it. No one ...

... we cudn't help staring out the window at the pretty view of Tuscany. We decided to only walk once we got there, as there is more to see ...