Pisa is a cute little town with not much going on but the tower but we had a great night wandering the streets, eating dinner at 9:00 then crashing due to jetlag!
The next morning we got up and went straight to the tower which is only about a km away. We bought a pedometer so we could see how far we walk in a day and so far, I would say it is a lot.
The tower is impressive and we overheard a tour guide say that it had been built to house the bell tower. They do not know who orginally started to build the tower because no one wanted to claim building such a disaster of architechure! I do not know if that is true or not but it made us laugh.
Our hotel is situated right on the Arno river and is the oldest hotel in Italy. It is starting to show its age but that, I suppose, would be the charm. (Draining the tub floods the floor...thank God that doesn't happen when you flush!)
After the tower we decided to go find a grocery store to buy our baguette, stinky cheese and a bottle of Vino. We were using our GPS to find it so it took us on the driving route, which took us an hour. We decided to just walk toward the river to get back to our hotel. Come to find out, the grocery store was across the river from our hotel, literally a 4 minute walk from our hotel.
Oh well it was worth the walk, a bottle of wine, cheese and bread costs a whopping 4.19 Euros...which is less than $6 Cdn.
