Pisa

On our way south to Rome, it made sense to call into Pisa as it was on the way and gawp at the Piazza Del Miracoli, which truly is a beautiful place. We both envied the students chilling out on the lush lawns (though they were probably just tourists, the students no doubt being way too cool and/or hard working to be seen doing such a thing). The leaning tower itself is surprisingly quite amazing and didn't disappoint. Not that we weren't expecting it to lean or anything, but just that it didn't seem in anyway lessened by the expectation.

What was also fun was watching all the tourists taking photos of themselves "propping" up the tower.



Naturally, I had to have a go - when in Rome (or on the way) and so on. Here's my effort.

Kate thought the whole thing was rather infantile and reacted in a very mature way as you can see.


Not quite in the spirit of things.

That night we camped by the sea near Cecina and swam in swarms of whitebait. Weird.