Woke up early and booked it across Florence to get to my program's bus for our day trip to Pisa/Lucca. Pisa is only an hour bus ride away from Florence so it was nice to just sit, take in scenery as we drive past, even a quick power nap, and just relax. We arrive in Pisa and the parking lot close to the Leaning Tower and foriegn scalpars swarm us. Seriously, like I want Ray Bans as much as the next American, but I don't care if it's only 5 euros get the frig out my face I'm not naive. Take no for an answer and back the fuck away from us.
Rant aside, walking tour of Pisa (aka the Leaning Tower and the road leading to it) ... Now this was a boring tour. I'm all for learning this different culture but that was 2 hours wasted that the only thing that stuck with me is that they used liquid nitrogen on the ground around the tower to help suppourt it.... whoo, Pisa got me one fun fact... Yeah I could have spent 2 hours taking ridiculous touristy photos in front of the Tower, but still got to do that for a half hour.
Then we got to have lunch in a private garden in a restaurant right down the street from the Tower. Total not real life situation. Had lasagna, roasted chicken and we were told potatoes but then french fries appeared and I was in heaven, then a frothy kind of gelato. So good.
Then we took a trolly (yeah no joke a trolly) back to the parking lot to bus it over a half an hour to Lucca. Lucca is now one of my favorite places I have ever visited. I loved Lucca. We took a bike tour of the city (with the same boring tour guide but this time she barely talked so it was good). The city still has its ancient city walls set up but they are so big that you can bike along to top of it so we biked the 2ish miles around the city on the wall and it was perfect. Exactly what I needed, a little endorphins from biking, perfect sunny/windy weather, getting to see the beautiful Italian countryside with mountains and building cityscape included, and just got to take the city in. My camera died 5 seconds into the bike tour so I think that helped me really appreciate Lucca. (Expect an update with my friends photos I already told them I'd steal because Lucca was that good). Then we walked around in the city and with our free time went to this tower/church building that was in the center of the city that has a roof top garden that you can see from everywhere in the city. So we spent 2.50 euro (cheap and WELL worth it) to go the top and that was the most relaxing and beautiful. I got to see the entire city 360 degrees around and I could have spent hours up there. These are the type of adventures I came to Italy for.
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