Saturday we took a train to Pisa. The tower was awesome to see, def one of my highlights so far. There were hundreds of tourists all getting snap happy and taking the obligatory photos 'holding op the tower', we of course joined in! We didn't get a chance to go up the tower as we were on limited time and the tours were booked up until 3pm. So after an hour or two in Pisa we hopped back on a train to Florence, we needed to be there by 4pm to guarantee our accommodation (long story). When we arrived at the Florence station a man approached us asking if we needed accommodation, which we didn't but he eneded up convincing us to stay in his hostel instead, and what a great decision that turned out to be! The hostel was very central, small, clean, our own room, free internet etc etc.
Florence itself wasn't a fave place of mine but in saying that we did still do some good sightseeing. Sunday we went to Boboli and Bardini Gardens...which weren't that impressive really considering the gardens back at home but it was cool in the fact that a few mins away was the busy city yet we were in the peaceful large open space. Our ticket for the gardens also got us into the costume gallery which was quite cool, Niki didn't enjoy that as much...clothes = boring! Later we went up to the look-out which has a fake 'David' statue. We had awesome views of the city. The next day we went to see the real Michaelangelo David statue (but later discovered we'd been at the wrong museum!). Which we should've realised as it had only cost €4 instead of €10 and we waitd 5mins in line rather than 4 hours! haha :) ditzy. Anyway I wasn't too phased it's just a statue!
Sunday night we had Chines Takeaways (I know! we're in Italy and what do we eat! we're strange!) and got some drinks and hung out with a couple at the hostel. They had lots of exciting travel stories to tell so that was lots of fun and nice to just chill out.
Florence itself wasn't a fave place of mine but in saying that we did still do some good sightseeing. Sunday we went to Boboli and Bardini Gardens...which weren't that impressive really considering the gardens back at home but it was cool in the fact that a few mins away was the busy city yet we were in the peaceful large open space. Our ticket for the gardens also got us into the costume gallery which was quite cool, Niki didn't enjoy that as much...clothes = boring! Later we went up to the look-out which has a fake 'David' statue. We had awesome views of the city. The next day we went to see the real Michaelangelo David statue (but later discovered we'd been at the wrong museum!). Which we should've realised as it had only cost €4 instead of €10 and we waitd 5mins in line rather than 4 hours! haha :) ditzy. Anyway I wasn't too phased it's just a statue!
Sunday night we had Chines Takeaways (I know! we're in Italy and what do we eat! we're strange!) and got some drinks and hung out with a couple at the hostel. They had lots of exciting travel stories to tell so that was lots of fun and nice to just chill out.
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