Florence/ Pisa

From Rome we went to Pisa, found our hotel (very close to the train station) and then got another train to Florence for a quick look around there. We did a double decker bus tour, and had a bit of a wander around.
I don't know the name of this bridge, but it had building on it and looked crazy.

Florence is the home of the Michealangelo statue of David, but there are copies everywhere. This one was at the top of some hill on the bus tour. There were a lot of statues with naked men in them in Florence, a lot.

The leaning tower of Pisa really did lean. It was surreal to actually see it in real life, it was just like the photos.

We walked up to the top (there was no lift!), the spiral staircase went around the outside of the inside first of all, and then got really narrow and went up the middle. It was hard work to get to the top!! At some places it felt like you were walking up hill, then leaning to the inside, then leaning to the outside. It was weird because your eyes just thought you were walking up a normal staircase but your body was saying otherwise.

Here's me at the top. It's looking kind of straight across, so you can see that you have to walk up and down hill just walking around the top. It was quite a long way down too. Didn't spend too long at the top.

Of course we had to get the obligatory tourist photo.