Send The Bugger Back

The brekkie here is belter, €5 for as much as you want. I had a big plate of bacon and scrambled eggs, some cereal, a croissant and 2 glasses of orange juice. I also made four rounds of toast and whacked some cheese and ham in them for my lunch later. €5 for 2 meals, jobs a good ‘n.

I’m now on route to Pontedera, I know it’s quite sad but I’m pretty excited about seeing the Piaggio Museum It’s free admission ‘n all.

I only spent an hour there but I enjoyed it immensely, there’s some right beauts and rarities on display. There’s also some proper shockers.

Amazingly, Jukka spent more than me in the shop and he’s not even a fan. A quality Vespa bag for €38 was his purchase while I spent €13 on a little notepad, magnet and 2 very small scale models (Primavera ET3 and GS 150 both scooters I hope to own one day, or slight variations of anyway). Actually, I think I may already have at least one of those models somewhere already, so a bit of a numpty purchase really.

We are just on our way to Pisa now to checkout that tower that Clark Kent is always messing about with, see.

Man, I’m absolutely knackered. This evening I plan to relax and have a swim and a sauna and do a bit of planning for the next week or so. Then hopefully an early night. My intentions rarely work out though.

Pisa was not bad, the city itself is pretty average but the Cathedral is nice and the tower is, well, weird. I looked at it for 10 minutes just thinking, well why hasn’t that fallen over then. We didn’t bother going up, at €15 they can do one.

Ravioli al pomodoro was my tea tonight from the hostel, pretty nice but again not enough to fill my belson. That’s why pizzas are so tempting as they are relatively cheap and get the job done. I can’t wait for my breakfast already.

I did manage to go for a swim in the end, that’s the first time I have swam in years literally. I done 100 lengths using front crawl (I can’t do breast-stroke!), though I should probably point out it was no way near a full size pool.

Then I had a Turkish bath (finally) and a sauna afterwards. I don’t think either of them were as hot as they should be though, plus there was a large group of loud Americans ruining the mood. I’ll give it another go tomorrow probably.

So there has been a few more changes to my travel plans. I want to visit Verona so I am going to spend 3 nights in Venice after all and then use 1 of them for a day-trip to fair Verona. To accomodate this I’ve chopped off Monaco and Montpellier, though I’ve also added an extra night in Nice so I can do Monaco as a day-trip too.

Right I’m just going to try and find a hostel for Venice and figure out if it’s easy to get to San Marino and back from Florence in a day, then it will be time for some much needed shut-eye.

A day-trip to Sienna is likely on the cards tomorrow folks.