Saturday: A Tower and a Beach. We made use of the regional train system without using a day of our train passes. This hotel is so convenient. We finished our breakfast, walked across the street into the station, and boarded a waiting train for Pisa. By 10:20 we were walking through the market in Pisa towards the famous tower and cathedral. It was impressively crooked in person. We took the silly, must-do photos of each other appearing to be holding it up. We paid to go into the church but did not wait and pay 15 Euros to go up the tower. In this one site, it's not the view from the top that's prized; rather, it's the view from the ground which is important. We bought souvenirs when leaving. Now to match the crystal laser blocks of the Eiffel Tower and the wheel in Vienna, we've got the matching Colosseum in Rome. Jay got a small Leaning Tower as well.
It was time for lunch. At the other exit, we walked what we figured we the the alternative way back to the train station. It was. Eventually, we made our way back but were quite far down the river. I am sure we walked more than five miles.
Jay was also interested in visiting the beach as long as we were closer. He'd read of a resort called Viareggio. It had a completely different feel than places we'd been. We literally walked around for hours. We could have spent more time looking around the area but we wanted to get back to Florence. It was about a 2-hour trip back, but interestingly not via Pisa. So, we saw different scenery.
Getting to the station felt like home. We will be leaving tomorrow though. It is hard to think we will have been in this hotel for three nights tomorrow.
Just like last night, we went to a supermarket next door. Inside, there's a deli where the staff will make sandwiches by slicing off pieces of any type of bread and adding anything. Did you know that Swiss cheese goes very well with roast beef? I had a beer. A tiny can of Pepsi is 1 Euro but my local 660 ml bottle of local beer was only 15 cents more.