Pizza in Pisa

The rain that has followed us pretty much everywhere has stopped stalking us. The sun finally came out in Pisa, which was just as well as we had to walk from the station to the hotel.

Like Florence, Pisa is located on the river Arno. We took a nice walk in the evening across the bridge so as to take a look at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It was great being there in the evening as we missed the crowds of people.

We found a restaurant with a great view of the tower and ate pizza that was amazing.

The tower was the bell tower for the Catherdral next door. The problem with the tower is that it is tall and skinny and the soil is soft. The tower started to lean almost as soon as they started building. They stopped for a hundred years, and then they thought "Oh what the heck" and just carried on.

After a lot of hard work wth today's technology, they have managed to make it 43 centimetres straighter at the top. Even so it is still over 4 metres off at the top.

Here's Dad trying to stop the situation from getting any worse:

Now we are on the train to Sienna.