After my post yesterday, Jess and I wandered around Florence and attempted to visit the Uffizi museum. We get into it for free, so why not? We got there to discover a sign that basically said "We're on strike for the afternoon, come back tomorrow". Italy and its work schedule drives me UP A WALL. It's honestly as though they work when they feel like it.. and if they don't feel like it then they call a strike. The country shuts down in the afternoon so everyone can nap and they don't bother opening up on Monday mornings because that would be too hard to do apparently. And if they really don't want to work and they are SUPPOSED to work.. they just strike. "Oh I have this thing I want to go to but I have to work.." *OH THATS FINE MARIO, WE'LL JUST SHUT THE MUSEUM DOWN.. NO BIG." ....ugh. (..that was a pretty long rant, sorry) Anyway, it was SO nice out that day that we decided to wander around a little longer.. and we ended up down by the Arno river.. Here are some pictures.
Today, Jess and I got on a train (..which was accidentally free but don't tell Italy) headed for Pisa. It was only about and hour and a half away! Pisa is very small, and significantly calmer than Florence is. In fact, drivers STOP for pedestrians. We walked all the way down the main road and ended up at their duomo, along with the leaning tower. And yes, we were tourists and DID take a million pictures. We also laid on the lawn and basked in the sun because for once it was WARM and SUNNY. We tried to go to the botanical garden also, but they decided to close at 1 today. ...Is anyone surprised? We got sandwiches at a place called Salza's which reminded me of Scialo Bros bakery on Federal Hill, only 150,000 times better. We also got gelato (..surprised again, right?) which I successfully ordered in Italian and nobody laughed at me. I got a cone.. half strawberry half nutella. It was amazing. Ok here are more pictures.
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