Piza

Piza – we travelled through the mountains which was interesting. Almost like being at home, except we don’t have 5 lane each way highways, lots of tunnels going through our mountains! Went past the place Ferrari have a test track for their cars (yes – in the mountains).

Then arrive in Piza. Buses can’t go near the square it is, so you have to get off and go on the choo-choo train (literally!).

Then it was past lots of stalls (genuine fake gucchi, prada, rollex) and you enter this large green square. I was told there wasn’t much there, which actually isn’t quite true – however we did the whole thing, including shopping the stalls, in an hour! That included waiting 10 mins for toilets ( a bit of toilet queue rage happening amongst a few queue jumpers – woman yelling at each other!),  looking at this baptism dome/chapel and the church, and then the tower.

The square holds this baptism travel, church, tower, and hospital along the side. Quite a lot of grass (they call it the ‘field of “  as you can get born (hospital), baptised, married, die (hospital) all in the same area!

The tower was taller than I thought, had recently been strengthened so it doesn’t fall over. It was built on softish ground (something the designers hadn’t allowed for). You can pay $20 to walk to the top but app. not much to look at down.

The best part for me was all these people posing for photos with arms and hands out (you know those photos which look like they have the tower in their hands, holding it up etc)