Day 16

Emily:

Had breakfast on the streets of SanRemo. Our italian is good as long as we have Glenn's Translator! Know how to ask for an ATM off by heart!
Took new car to Pisa. Decided that was far enough to drive in a day - I think we've all had enough of travelling and are looking forward to Rome and staying in the one place for a couple of days... Pisa was extremely busy (people wise) the village itself, really isn't much at all. We're staying at a lovely B&B on the coast, only about 10kms away from the tower. When we drive to the tower, you drive through open fields and farmy type places. The tower is inside a wall - obviously a fortress many years ago for the cathedral and museum building.. I learned that the tower is leaning because when they decided to build it the architects thought it would be different to put 6 steps on one side and only 4 on the other. Throughout the years, the water and wear on the underside made it unstable, hence the renovations to keep it in one piece.

It cost 15 euros each to walk up to the top. Money to go toward the preservation costs.

Peter:
Today we had croissants that tasted bad, then we travelled to Pisa. We checked into our B&B and then we went for a walk around Marina Di Pisa. We got lunch and I had the biggest pizza i've ever had, and I ate it all - that was amazing! Then we all went in to Pisa and went to the leaning tower - Tower Di Pisa. We stayed there for about an hour and went back to the B&B for a rest. We then went out for dinner, I had swordfish and it tasted disgusting and then we went back to the hotel and went to sleep!

Glenn:
Have you ever slept in a bee hive, well walking and sleeping in San Remo comes close. Motor scooters - beep beep, vroom vroom, toot toot in groups of what seemed like thousands continuiously all day and night. Those of you who have travel with Emily know how erratic she can be as a driver, guess what, she fitted in like a local. Yes, Emily is in her element driving in Italy. The drive along the coast from Sn Remo to Pisa going past Cannes, Monaco, the sights were gorgeous and the water views were spectacular (from the train also). Marina Di Pisa is a sleepy little coastal village with some nice real estate that one might invest in one day! So that one could have a permanent holiday villa in a sunny part of Italy. Visitiing the Leaning Tower of Pisa was a real experience in looking at architectural history. I could have wandered around there for hours looking at the tower, cathedral but also the old market place.

Rhys:

Had a fun day it was good, it was great! It was long travelling to Pisa went through 101 tunnels at 140km/h with Emily's crazing driving. Went to the leaning tower of pisa, obviously it was on a lean! Dad wouldn't take a picture of me leaning on it - lamo! We saw Snoop Dogg eating at a restaurant in Pisa with his two body guards. Lots of pizza for me. Called Mum and Nick on the phone, because our gay-friendly hotel had free Internet access and international calls.