Florence; Friday, 28 September, 2007

Despite a slightly delayed arrival into Pisa, and the discovery that the airport station and the train ticket office are at completely different ends of the airport building!! I managed to catch the 6:35 train into Pisa changed onto the Florence train, and finally made it into the city centre a little after 8pm

I walked, what I thought would be the relativly short distance, to the hotel. This took the best part of 40 minutes in the end, but mostly because the pavements are so narrow that I had to keep stopping to move my bag out of the way, or pick it up.

I arrived at the hotel and checked in, dropped my stuff in the room and headed straight back out again for a wander around the city.

My first stop, as I had to cross it to get into the city centre was the Ponte Vecchio. The bridge is lined with small shops on both sides most of the way across. The shops give way to stunning views up and down the river from the middle.

I walked a little further on to the Piazza Della Signoria and had a look at the outside of the impressive town hall, with its statue of David outside. I had a bit more of a wander around the city centre. But by now was starting to feel quite tired from a long week at work, and nearly 9 hours of travelling, so I walked back to the hotel for a decent nights sleep.