Contrary to Jessie's declaration earlier on the trip "I'm not GOIN' to Pisa!" yesterday we (Jessie, Mike, April, Steph and I) decided to venture out on one last day trip before our time comes to a close in Italy. We met Mike and grabbed a taxi to the train station for our 2 hour ride to Pisa. The ride was pretty uneventful aside from our many controversial discussions that always seem to happen on trains. We've covered everything from Evolution to Abortion and many things in between.
When we arrived in Pisa, we found a map and figured it was a straight shot to the Tower. We stopped for lunch at one of the worst restaurants we've eaten at so far. The only good thing about it was that it was cheap. Steph and I got pizza and to our dismay it tasted like frozen microwave pizza. Not on par with any other Italian pizza!
Then we headed to the other side of the city to find the tower. Somehow along the way we turned off the main street and followed another we thought might be parallel to the main one. But as we came to the city wall we realized it was not. So we decided to walk on the outside of the wall around to the next entrance and find the Tower. Luckily our sense of direction was right and soon enough we saw the tower in the distance.
Of course the whole area around the tower was swarming with tourists taking the many typical tourist pictures holding the tower up, etc. The best/worst picture we saw being taken was a British man who ran up and stripped down to his underwear for a picture. I will not go into detail about how he posed…but it was quite comical to see him strip, take the picture and get dressed in about a minute flat. After we too took the typical tourist pictures with the tower (fully clothed!), we headed back to the train station.
It was a quick visit to the city of Pisa. Aside from the tower, there is really nothing else to see there. The city itself was the smelliest and dirtiest city we've visited. It really wasn't pretty, the food was bad and it was incredibly hot!
The train ride home was again uneventful and full of conversation. After we got home and got cleaned up the five of us tried a new restaurant for dinner called Zest. It was my favorite meal of the whole trip. The food was top notch, our waiter, James, was adorable, charming and from England and the dessert was to die for! I had cheese ravioli with tomato sauce and lemoncello tiramisu. We're going to try and squeeze in one more visit to Zest before we leave in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday!!
Until next time, Ciao!
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