Pisa and Verona

The next day after Florence we left in the morning to have a quick two hour stop in Pisa to see the leaning tower and then onto Verona. The town where Shakespeare set the stage for Romeo and Juliet! We figured out that our 4day European train pass to Italy did not include the fast trains therefore we had to wait another hour for the late, no air conditioning SLOW train to Pisa and Verona, and while doing so we thought we would go crazy taking silly photos! Big grins!!!

Lol, we be sexay! ;-)

Yep, so then the train that we were supposed to catch in Bologna to take us to Verona, well, the station was closed. Lol, so that meant that we had to figure out without speaking Italian how to get from the Bologna station to a bus that would take us to another nearby station which would then take us to Verona! Traveling is always some sort of adventure!

While bored, fixing hair . . .

Countryside! One should always travel by train at some point in life! It is so much better than flying because one really gets a sense of what traveling from one country to another is like. One sees the countryside, hears the dilects and languages change. Absolutely a wonderful way to travel.

A bit of an inside joke . . .

Verona finally!!!! The streets were marble!!!! This is a very wealthy place apparently. Where your nice clothes out to dine here. :-)

Square in the old town

Flame thrower guy! Hehe, quite amusing!

Sarah Carter! Lol, Miriam's highschool friend from Canada was an aupair in Como, Italy for a couple of months and she mt up with us for Verona and Venice!

I was so pleased over our italy trip! I planned it all myself and it went rather well. Although traveling with Miriam was such a bonus, I really could not have done it without her and we really traveled well together. Only fought once, lol, and that was over water temp. Haha, only lasted a few minutes before we started laughing!!! ;-)