Nina and I really had an adventure. What started out as something that could have been dreadful turned into something more spectacular than i could have imagined!
Nina got REALLY sick a week before leaving. Praying for the best i tried to find a friend to take her place if needed, but at the last moment she pulled through!
We got on our plane and flew into Pisa. That first night was so funny, we thou gt we would explore the city and see the leaning tower in its glory that night with all the lights. It wasn't so, the two of us got lost and ended up not getting into bed till close to midnight, one am London time! All worked out because the next morning we spent the day in Pisa, we even climbed the tower. That was only the beginning of our climbing in Italy!
From Pisa we took a train to Florence, btw if you do ever take a train in italy remember to stamp your ticket before boarding, you don't want to have to pay the fine! (we learnt that the hard way!) What a beautiful city Florence is! I loved all the side streets and the markets were amazing! Like i said before we did a lot of climbing, in Florence Nina took us up the wrong hill, only to have to walk back down and up the larger hill next to it! To top it off it was SO HOT! The view was spectacular though!
With the help of a bus we arrived in Sienna, what a quaint little city! It was so cute. Have you ever seen the movie A Room With A View? well Let me just tell you our little hotel was exactly that! It was so cute, and when you looked out the shutters you could see into the center of the city! But just our luck it was sitting on top a hill ;)
The mad man that took us to Rome on the bus was NUTTY! Yelling, SCREAMING, HONKING, and all the while speaking Italian which btw I KNOW NONE OF! (quite difficult when one is trying to order a meal!) So once in Rome we walked to a bike rental place, there we hired bikes to see the city! Best choice, we arrived on a Sunday, so we were able to ride on all the streets with NO traffic, because they are all blocked off on sundays! If it wasnt for the bikes we would never have seen the entire city in 3 days! It was all so great! I could go on for hours, i was quite blown away! Last note about Rome is, its built on 7 hills! hahahaha
I'm so grateful for the trip, i couldnt have asked for a better holiday. Nina is such a great aunt, and it was so fun to bond with her on that great trip we had been planning for years!
It wasn't relaxing, but that was what Scotland was planned for...
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