leaning tower of pisa

Bronte with his big boy beard pushing over the tower
Captain Richie saving the tower

We left on the early train from Rome (7.25am) headed for Pisa, there is only one thing you go to Pisa for and it is for the coffee... na the leaning tower. Our train arrived at 10.57am and we caught the bus to the leaning tower.

The tower is fabulous considering they started to build in 1173. We had to climb the tower so we went to the ticket booth and handed over our €30. The tower is actually quite weird to walk up, its like an aerobics class, really easy for ten steps then really hard for 10, it feels as if the tower is going to fall over. The steps have all worn funny from where people walk close to the outside then close to the inside as they walk around the circular staircase. After we finished our tour of the tower we had to take the typical tourist shot of us either holding the tower up or pushing it over.

After finishing at the tower we caught the train to Florence, to catch the connecting train to Venice. The train to Florence was late, leaving us only a few minutes to catching the connecting train. We arrived in Venice at 7pm very tired as we had been up all day.