We woke up at 8am on Saturday morning to a dark and rainy day. We packed up our apartment and went to a café to get wifi, because we wanted to see if there was anything to do in Riomaggiore in the rain – there wasn’t really anything. We walked to the water because we wanted to see it one last time before we caught our train. We ended up spending another hour and a half by the water because it was so cool in the storm! It wasn’t raining too hard but the waves were crazy and we took a bunch of pictures. We tried to take a group picture in front of on of the cliffs (don’t worry though, there was a fence before the clif) and we were trying to take a cute picture but suddenly a HUGE wave came over the side and soaked all of us, mid-picture. Joeli captured it on her camera though which was good, but we were all soaking wet and laughing. It was soon time to head to the train station, so we made our way there. I gave Laura some money and she ran off to get fish and chips for the two of us before we had to get on the train, but unfortunately the line was too long so we didn’t have time. We took the seven-minute train to La Spezia, and then the hour-long train to Pisa. We had regional tickets so we didn’t have to be on the trains at specific times, which was nice.
We decided to stay in Pisa and take a later train, because someone told us that the Leaning Tower of Pisa was right near the train station. So in Pisa, we got directions to the tower and it was about a three-minute walk from the station! It was kind of weird because you walk through Pisa, which doesn’t seem like a nice town to visit, and then all of a sudden you turn the corner and BAM there’s the tower. There were a million tourists but it was cool to see the tower and I can check it off my list now (even though I didn’t really have it on my list of things to see). We then took the train from Pisa to Florence, and stayed in Florence for a few hours. We went shoe shopping (although they didn’t have my shoe size….), got some gelato, sat in a park, hung out by the river, etc. Then we walked back to the station to take the train from Florence to Orvieto from 7-9:30ish. We arrived in Orvieto, exhausted and a little bit red from the sun, but it was a great weekend! But as usual, it was wonderful to be back home in Orvieto.
Love the rocks!! Hope you packed them:)
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