Pisa Travel Blogs

I just met up with a random in Pisa. No not really random, the girl's name is Silvia and you might know here because she's on travbuddy.  really not that interested in the leaning tower, just wanted to have someone to drink alcohol with. Too much alcohol mentioned on this blog people will thin…

Our spontaneous plan was to visit the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa today.   First we stopped in a suburb and spied through our binoculars - wow, the excitement was getting bigger and bigger, especially within my sister and me. The famous Leaning Tower was just a few minutes away, great! &n…

Pisa, another famous Tuscan city of course albeit for maybe one reason only, will be a stop-off town for me today on route to the area on the north west coast of Italy collectively known as Le Cinque Terre.  I’ve been told by Steve in Florence, and he’s right, that really you don’t need …

Weekend trips around Europe

Pisa was one of the places on this trip that I had never been, so I was very excited To see something new. It was a beautiful day!!! It was the 1st day of the trip that I didn't have to wear long sleeves or a jacket :) The other teachers, students & I took all the fun, silly pictures that everyone …

Today we ventured to Pisa and then on to the beach in Viareggio. I saw the tower, took the mandatory "holding up the tower" picture and that was pretty much it. Amanda and I went inside the Cathedral and Baptistry, but it wasn't anything overly amazing. I did like the use of two colors of marble to…

  Pisa - Only One Fabulous Field of Miracles   American country singer, T.G. Sheppard, wrote and recorded a tune in 1981 that discussed the uniqueness of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and other one-of-a-kind things.   A self-described vagabond, Sheppard once said, "Take m…

today i went on a little day trip from florance. I got the train out of florance at 9 got to pisa around 10.30. the train ride was already a treat wat a great way to see toscany. Pisa  has nothing other then the famous tilted tower. It was verry funny to see that there are a lot of people…

Going to Pisa

we went to pisa yesterday for a nice day trip. it was great, though i didnt find the tower nor the surrounding buildings to be all that impressive. we didnt go up the tower however, as it was an absurd 15 euros. instead we chose to lie in the grass and enjoy some food and the sun, as well as the ot…

My last post covered one of my favorite ride/runs that my buddy and I found in Tuscany.   A lot of the time our trips out of town did incorporate both running and riding and I’ll definitely share more of those routes later.  Today I want to share some of the rides that constituted …

Honestly, except for the most famous leaning tower, the cathedral and a few nice streets…Pisa could be skipped altogether. It is crowded …I mean crowded J … I was even about to recommend shifts in picture taking J - all the people in red t-shirts take pictures now! And all the people from my …

If you are in Florence it doesn't take long arriving to Pisa. You have to go there! You don't even have to spend a night there. :)   Ready to go… I checked out from the hostel and went to the station. I left my big bag in the station in Florence and took the train to Pisa, just carrying a…

Even though the sun was shining when we left Amsterdam, it was raining when we arrived in Pisa. Doesn't matter: we are in Italy!. Our tour guide, madeleine, prefers to say that it's not raining but those drops are liquid sunshine. In our touringcar we are waiting for 20 minutes for one person who s…

We never actually stayed in Pisa :( but we stayed in a town called Lucca and travelled to Pisa via the train. When we arrived I was so over come with excitment as this was my first time seeing the Leaning Tower of Pisa! Walking along the street and then seeing it out in the distance was brilli…