Hotel Adriana Viareggio

... and limited to pastry or pizza at 5pm, but I found Brasserie La Loggia near the station that had a full menu all day.
Walked in to order a pasta and was amazed and delighted that they also had a display case full of Belgian, German, Dutch and other quality beers.
Had a La Trappe with my bolognese. Even though it's made in the Netherlands it was still a good tripel.
Was ready to go after that but ...

... ill once we made it to the station in Pisa. Not so fun.

Still, ok – we’re now in Pisa, right?, and so we should make the best of it. After getting a better map from the local tourist office, we walked from the Pisa train station to the Fiume Arno River (the same river that flows through Florence). During our walk, we saw this unique, teeny-tiny church named Santa Maria della Spina, which hung right on the edge of ...

... 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

... and we stayed until we were ready to retire for the evening.

Sat 14 Nov
Next day we had a sleep-in and then went for a run around the 4km city walls. Twice around was enough for Kim and I managed a 3rd. After a shower we were back in town for more meandering and I had one of the best Cupuccio's (Capuccino) ever!! We found a few hours during siesta to catch up with the ...

... motorcycle/scooter before. Long story short, after a brief tutorial in a parking lot, he didn't die. We headed out for the mountains- yea I forgot to mention, the backdrop of the beach is mountains. We rode probably 10 miles or so to a small town in the foothills. We considered riding to Pisa, but rain was inevitable, and I wanted to be able to quit as soon as it started. So, we headed back into ...

... reason for our jouney (and the end of some expensive tolls.) Pictures to come this afternoon as the cafe where pics may be uploaded is closed until then! ...from Jacques, the speedy A3 Autostrada speed check: Police car 150 km cube van 140 km Alpha Romeo 175 km Fiat Panda 170 km A3 usually seen @ 160 km Golf 180 km Motorcycle 150 km ... during a downpour

... To be truthful, the pasta is, eh.. I have to say.. I've had better.. Although the meatballs are to die for! About the wine, yeah, I never drank wine before I came because I thought it was gross! Well it's true that Italian wines are awesome! My roommates and I have already gone through 9 bottles of wine in one week! And yes, I drink wine now! I love it! Anyway, this last Sunday me and my roommates traveled up to the Carnivale in Viareggio! It was soo amazing! The pictures ...

After some trains, I finally arrived in Pisa, on my way to Venice. I found out that the Eurorail is the Italian Train Mofia or something. I think the thing is that the ticket sellers and checkers don't understand the different europasses. Either they would tell me just to hop on the train from the ticket counter, or sell me the ticket for next to nothing and not mark out one of my travel days. One ticket puncher on a train came asking for my ticket and as soon as he saw me pulling ...