Hotel Rex 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 ...

... in Viareggio the Armani yacht, anchored almost scared, far from human eyes. Her design is impressive; it shows that some one thought about the general look so as the small details. A walking area on the deck was build especially for walking models. The crew, neither the less, was wearing designed by Armani uniform. No doubt that the impact is high, for me, I rather sail a small sailing yacht with old clothes designed by ...

... the most luxurious yachts you had ever seen. Some with bars and lounges's and one was even for sale. It didn't say so but i don't think you would have got much change from 10 million! It rained in Monaco which ruined it a bit but it was still great watching the rich posh people looking down their noses at us. I didn't mind the pomposity as we were on their 'turf' and so we had a good time even when Anna complained about ...

... on the beach. All of the beaches in Italy are private, either owned by hotels or by wealthy families. There was a small sailboat on the sand and we were almost going to sleep under it to ensure that no one would find us, but we decided not to. In the event that the owner checked the boat and found three girls sleeping under it...they probably would not have liked it. So we opted to sleep on the sand in a darker area where no ...

... Dick and Dexter. Dexter was orange of course. All along the way I kept passing other hikers and saying hello. It would always be Hello, Bonjour, Hole, and Buon Giorno alternating. I finally got the guts up to say hello in another language even though I felt like an imposter, and as I said Bonjour to someone, he replied back by saying bonjour as well. Ha, that's cool! Passed another cat whom I named Bob, not sure why, just Bob. He was nice, think he reminded me of a bobcat ...