Day 8

Yesterday was mostly a drive day again. We were up nice and early to be on the road. Aside from toilet breaks, we had 1 stop on our way to our campsite in Tuscany. That stop just so happened to be the leaning tower of Pisa.

The first thing we did in the area was grab something for lunch. Our plan was to order a pizza, stack it up into a leaning tower and eat it in front of the leaning tower of Pisa. Unfortunately when we tried to stack it up, all the toppings started sliding right off the pizza and we decided we would enjoy it more if we just ate it the way it was. Matt and I both decided that it was ok, but we preferred Windsor pizza, and even grocery store pizza. Ours was burned on the bottom and not well cooked on the top.

The tower was great though! We wandered around it taking funny pictures. While most people were taking pictures of themselves with their hand in the position to “hold the tower up”, I decided it would be funnier to create a photo effect of myself knocking down the tower. Matt agreed that way was better, so we were the only people in Pisa with our hands in the opposite direction of the crowd.

We eventually got to the hostel for dinner – bread, pasta and pizza. It was so strange. The bread was hard, the pasta was undercooked and the pizza was better than the last one, but still not like home. I found it funny that the things Italy was known for were just mediocre in comparison to back at home.

After dinner, Matt and I asked information if there was a fire pit at the camp site. We really confused the guy- apparently only farmers burn things in a fire. Our campsite was bungalows (tiny little cabins) and we spent the remainder of the evening sipping wine from the vineyard in France and laughing about past memories.