What a beautiful sky in Rome when we woke up this morning.
I didn’t feel great when I woke this morning. A bit dizzy and squeamish, so for the first time since September, I took my Vertigo medication.
Unfortunately, I have felt pretty awful all day, until about 4pm. I’m still shaky but I feel so much better than I did. I haven’t been sick but I think that’s been on my mind all day. I’ve had waves of dizziness and feeling faint.
So now that’s out the way, we’ve had a pretty amazing day. One that I was very excited about although, maybe I haven’t appreciated it fully, at the time.
We walked to Roma Trastavere train station (which is coincidentally pronounced Trast-Avery which makes me giggle every time!) and caught the train to Rome Tiburtina.
We had an hours’ layover where we got coffee and a pastry.
We shared the pastry for obvious, aforementioned reasons. 😆
We then caught the train at 10.45 which got us into Florence, of Firenze, by 12.30. All the following pics are taken out of a moving train.
Florence train station!
Another half hour and we’d changed trains again and were on the way to Pisa!!
Unfortunately this is where I really went to ground. I had to shut my eyes for the whole journey. I have never breathed as deeply as I did on that train. It was a tough hour. There are no photos!
We arrived into Pisa Centrale.
Melanie got us a taxi to the leaning tower.
Piazza dei Miracoli is so beautiful.
The colour of the stone is so pure looking.
It wasn’t actually that busy but there are lots of people trying to get the traditional photos!
We decided we should really try and eat but had something really plain.
Melanie had also brought raw ginger with her so I had some of that.
By this time the sun had come out and I started to feel so much better.
The train back to Florence, at 4.30 is so much better.
And THIS is the view from our hotel window!!
It’s right across from the train station which is great.
Sorry for the photo dump and not many words at the moment.
Hoping normal service will be resumed tomorrow. Very glad to be in our hotel now and off down for a drink shortly. I may just have water 😆
Tomorrow we explore Florence!
Stay safe everyone ♥️♥️♥️
The Rambling Sloth 🦥 