The train station was crazy, everyone and everything seemed to be moving so fast and we just could not keep up! Eventually, we figured out how to get our tickets from a kiosk and then had to figure out the Italian on the tickets to tell us what platform to wait at and what train to get on. It was very hectic! We tried asking for help from a random person, they didn't speak any english. Then tried asking a person at a ticket booth counter, he just drew a picture and pointed- no words.. Finally we were given some helpful instruction and by this time.. we had 4 minutes to make it to the train,we walked so fast to that platform!! We got on the train and a minute after we sat down it started moving- we got lucky!
When we got to Pisa, we decided to buy a map before we left the station because neither of us had ANY idea at at all of where we were/ where anything we wanted to see was. And when we walked out, we just kept walking.. didn't take out the map once. We walked past little shops and through the town and it was really nice! Its a lot like Florence only smaller and less crowded. We decided to just keep walking and exploring and we came across the tower! It was very cool to see in person, we did not go up to the top, unfortunately, because it was raining really hard and it was pretty cold, so we just took our touristy pictures and went to find a place to wait out the rain.
We took cover in a pizza place! Lucky us, right? It was SO good! We sat in there and waited for the rain to lighten up (and ate pizza) before we moved on… to gelato:)
It was a very nice town and I would love to go back on a nicer day so I can climb to the top of the tower!
Sounds like a typical experience. Good for you.
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