Pisa Part 1

Today we went to Pisa to explore. Now when I was planning the trip I was excited to go to Lucca (not sure why, but I like the name) and pretty eh on Pisa. I thought we will go and see the tower and wander a bit, but eh. Maybe it will be a short day.

Well we got to Pisa and I loved it! We parked close to the tower and all that and that was gorgeous. All the buildings there were amazing and it was busy, but not the nightmare of tourists I thought it would be! Though there were a ton of people waiting to get into everything when we got there so I was like okay we probably won’t do that as we had markets up explore! And fun tower photos to take. I was trying to get Raymond to take ones with full body me and the tower and he kept saying that will break the illusion!! And I wanted to be farther away from him and he was like that doesn’t work! So he finally took the first one of me holding up the tower and I laughed so much cause I was so tiny! so I made him take a full version of that. Then we tried what he was trying to do the whole time, but got all of me in the shot which he was still like that breaks the illusion! Oh it was fun. And I know I have seen pictures of the leaning tower and stuff, but it is leaning so much! More than what the pictures show (I kept saying I see it is tilted so much, but when I take a photo and look at it it doesn’t look like it is as much as it is in person!). It really does look like it should fall over, and does look curved as they tried to compensate for the sinking. It was a lot cooler in person than I thought it would be and we spent way more time there throughout the day than I thought we would.

After exploring that area we headed on to spy on the markets and explore the town…and the markets were extremely disappointing. There was a food one that was like 3 produce stands and no one was there…but the produce was gorgeous! The best we have seen the whole trip! And the other one was a handful of stands and again no one there shopping which was so odd. There was a third one, but it was about a 40 min walk from the second market and they were so disappointing we decided not to walk out to it (it was outside of downtown). Wandering the town outside of the big tourist spot was odd. It was almost like a ghost town. Only a handful of people about which for the size of the city was very strange.

The one thing we did find was lots of fun art. There was even an art alley that was all local artists who had donated their works which was nice. I love finding all the art everywhere.Lue lisää