Pisa

Friday (2/18/11) morning three of the housemates and two of our friends decided that we should get out of Florence and see something new. After getting everyone together we finally left for the train station. Once arriving we found that a train to Pisa was leaving in 11 minutes and then decided it was a good idea to figure out how to buy the tickets through the machine for all 6 of us. By the time we all had our tickets we had 4 min to find where the train was and to get on it. The trains say their final destination on the platforms, which made it somewhat of a challenge to figure out where we were going. By the end we were running through the station and got on the train right before the doors closed.

 
We arrived in Pisa's central train station an hour later. The ride was easy and short. Not really being prepared for the day we had no map, but found a map on board outside of the whole city (somewhat old and had blacked out spots making it difficult to make out what places actually were). After looking at it for a couple min we decided the best option was to just walk straight until we found the leaning tower. Apparently our strategy worked and about 30 min later we came upon Pisa's Duomo and leaning tower. We walked around did all the "touristy" stuff and walked back to the train station. We had herd that really the only thing to do in Pisa was to see the Tower and Duomo so we had planned accordingly with only two hours in Pisa before the train ride home.