From Venice ( or there abouts) we drove to a spot just outside Florence.
Despite the slowest ticket machine in the world we managed to get on a train into Florence the next morning. All we really knew about Florence is that that’s where the David statue is but I found it quite a beautiful city that really made you feel a bit like you’re in the middle ages. We did head straight for the gallery where the statue is and stood in line for a good one and a half hours but we were expecting that. We had a delightful distraction when we ran into a friend from Canberra, she wisely had pre booked tickets so unfortunately for us she had to go rather quickly. The statue of David is very impressive which we were happy about after waiting so long. Being the art enthusiasts that we are that’s really about all we saw as we were quite hungry by this time!

For the rest of the day we just walked around and saw beautiful unique churches, some castles and more statues. Again I don’t really have the words to describe it properly but it was well worth the trip.

We decided that catching the train to Pisa was handier and cheaper than driving there so that’s what we did the following day. The friend we had run into had warned us that there’s basically nothing to do in Pisa besides see the tower so we figured we might as well make it a day trip rather than an overnight stop. Especially seeing as we had the Florence train station figured out by now! So that’s what we did. Got on the train, saw the tower, had lunch and went back. I think what I enjoyed most about Pisa was standing with my back to the tower and watching all the tourists attempt to take photos holding it up or pushing it down because it basically just looks like a field of people doing yoga or tai chi, it’s very funny to watch. We obviously had to join in but as you’ll see from our attempts I’m not sure how successful we were!