President Montecatini Terme

... Leaning Tower began to lean after its architect had completed only three tiers of the building. Most believe that the tower began leaning because of "shifting soil" – and then it continued to incline about 1mm every year since it was built! In 1998, however, the City of Pisa (realizing, I think, that if the tower ever fell over, their tourism industry would be severely curtailed!) wrapped cables around the third story of the ...

nous sommes rester a florence pour terminer notre visite la ville en allant aux jardins boboli et bardini, situe dans la cours du palais pitti. Deux grand jardins qui a cette date n'ont plus autant a offrir qu'en ete. il n'y a plus de fleur, et la moitie des arbres n;ont plus de feuille, mais on a pu constater l'ampleur de la propriete en passant tout l'apres midi a ...

... took a taxi straight to the train station. Murray said he was still up for the trip today – but poor Murray!

The train ride to Florence took less than two hours (we opted for the high-speed train), and while on the train, we saw some spectacular Tuscan countryside! Beautiful green, rolling, farmland hills – castles or palazzos on top of these hills around every other bend – and the bright fall sun still highlighting the autumn ...

partie de pise pour se rendre a Florence en toscane. On s'approche tranquillement de la region de Chianti ! Encore uen ville magnifique ou l'on ne peut pratiquement rien prendre en phtoto tellement les rues sont etroites. Le duomo, le 3e plus haut de l'europe est visible de tres loin. Ensuite, de piazza en piazza, nous avons traverser la ville pour voir des tres grand edifice , souvent construit avant meme la decouverte de l'amerique!! Nous avons ...

... 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 ...

... I would not be arriving for another couple of hours. Not knowing if I would be able to find accomodation that night I texted Pete to find me an alternative hostel somewhere in the Cinque Terre. After five hours of travel and four trains I arrived in the first town of the Cinque Terre: Riomeggiore. Thankfully, the hostel left a key for me outside the office and I was able to access my room. The hostel was a delight. In fact, it was not a hostel at all, but a ...

... in the side of the walls that looked like waters and a measurement system, then we found a sign that said aqueducts it was kind of cool. We turned back after Jerry realized that we had passed Fort Belvedere after looking at the map he had. We finally made it to the entrance of the gardens which is through the Palazzo Pitti The Gardens were beautiful you will just have to look at the hundred pictures of the place, and I could have filled the ...

Today we hopped on the Eurostar up to Florence, and apparently in Italy, seat assignments DO matter. People are very defensive when they think you have taken their seat, which has not been my experience before in Europe. Oh well. After some early morning craziness trying to find the bus stop to actually get to the train station (the signs lied!!), we made it to the train and eventually to Florence, where we were met by our guide ...

... start singing the song now....OOOOOOOOOOO-Oak! Lahoma! where the wind comes sweeping down the PLAIIIIINS!!) Anyways, we toured around part of the gallery with them, but Erin and I had to go faster because we needed to get to the Duomo Cathedral that same day, and it closes at 18:30. So, we saw what we thought was everything, but then I was looking around the gift shop for a cheap pen (mine had all run out of ink...) and i saw a Leonardo Da Vinci painting and a ...

... found the most amazing place for lunch, Mario's, which is an old restaurant that only opens at lunchtime, but my god their food is amazing!!! The next night for dinner we go out to a fancy restaurant, Acquacotta, and I have squid ink risotto (which is black, but doesn't taste strange at all). The rest of the time we have been eating gelati, and have been trying about 6 flavours a day *blush*. We are having a race to see how many flavours we can try...hehe!