Pisa for dinner

We cleaned up, dropped the keys off, posted some 'excess baggage' (for which we were gouged, and which we could have carried on board as it happens), left a charity pack with K,and headed off. There was much left undone, but hopefully also enough done. Time will tell.

We took the Autostrada north, this time getting a biglietto first. Lunch was in a Servizio but we stopped at Sienna for a look. It is a lovely town that deserves longer than we gave it. Perhaps on our third trip?

Our route (and more dodgy sign-posting) took us through the Tuscan countryside and it lived up to its postcard stereotypes. It was lovely.

In Pisa we stayed in a hotel in the centre of the old town, very close to the Piazza del Duomo and of course the leaning tower. We got settled in and then went to have a look. The sun had just gone down but we could see the tower and would even have gone up if it had been cheaper that 15 euros each. The walk around was nice anyway and we took some self-portraits which you might find on J's blog. It is so easy to think of Pisa as a leaning tower and nothing else, but it has Roman ruins, extensive medieval walls and, of course, many significant buildings other than the tower.

Dinner was late, but yummy, and the town is surprisingly empty of tourists at night so was pleasant to wander around for a while. A good note to finish our trip on. After 4 weeks of hot nights and yapping dogs, it was a luxury to have air-con and silence. Mmmm.