After a few days of camping in some immense heat, we felt we had seen enough of Siena and thought Florence might be a nice stopover before Rome. So on Tuesday around 3pm we figured we could catch the 310 bus back to our campsite, load up and get back on the 3:50 bus back to Siena and then be able to catch the 430 train from Siena to Florence. A beautiful tight plan that would get us to a campsight with swimming pool by night time.
And then we missed the 3pm bus. So of course that plan went out the window.
Instead we mosied our way around Siena some more, enjoying the hilly walkways and realizing that no establishment which serves any sort of food is open between the hours of 2 and 6pm. And we were Hungry.
After our first not-tasty Italian meal we had the best gellato I have tasted to date (I got peach and some sort of vanilla, graham, chocolate heavenliness). We watched the late afternoon light warm the bricks of the hilly town and then we went back to rest for the night.
Tomorrow's plan: A 7am bus to Siena, a few hour train ride to Pisa (may as well drop by and see the leaning tower right?) and then an hour train ride to Florence where we'll find our newest campsite, pool and all!
Pisa was a great little stop. Of course the Leaning Tower is at the furthest point away from the train station, so with backpacks, tent and groceries we trekked our way through the midday heat to visit the tower and give it some luck in standing up.
We had lunch at a lovely little cafe at the base of the tower where I had a fine Ragu Balenese and then we preceded to the tower to snap some photos before heading on our way.
Jackie and I did a little acro to the amusement of a big group of Australians and then tried to teach them a few moves (unsuccessfully).
Then we made our way back to the train, sweating like mad in the hottest of the mid-day heat, and caught a window-less, non-air conditioned train to Florence!
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