Florence; Wednesday, 13 July, 2022

As is so common with flights during the summer of 2022 the flight out to Pisa was heavily delayed, and by the time we finally departed was running 2 hours late, in part due to a late inbound flight, but also because we were on a remote stand and there weren’t enough buses to get us all over to the plane.

The flight itself was fine and the pilots even managed to make up some time landing us a little over 90 minutes late, a quick journey through the airport but we weren’t quite quick enough to make the PisaMova cable tram that now links the airport to the central station. By the time the next one arrived at Pisa Centrale we had missed the 21:30 train and so had nearly an hours wait.

That turned into a 90-minute wait as the train arrived in plenty of time, but then sat at Pisa for 30 minutes waiting for other trains to cross ahead of us. By the time we finally made it to Florence it was nearly 00:20, which is when we found out that all the taxis were on strike. Thankfully we had one piece of good luck as we were just in time to cram ourselves onto the last tram of the night out to the hotel.

By the time we checked in it was almost 01:00, not a great start when the next day you’ve got an all day meeting and presentation to a key customer!

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