The Leaning Tower of...

You guessed it, the primary image of your favorite Italian restaurant, the leaning tower of Pisa!

After riding out of the Internet cafe in Follonica we made it only about 10 more miles to the lovely campsite at Torre Moze which we have renamed simply...house of bugs...we are still tending to the numerous mosquito bites that we took as our memories of Torre Moze, oh and the train that went by every three hours and made you feel like you were sleeping on the launching pad of the space shuttle itself! What began as a sleepy ride out of Torre Moze continued on another beautiful Italian sun-filled day to the outskirts of Livorno where we were greeted by a tunnel, now most of the tunnels we have been through thus far have been very short maybe a few hundred meters at most, we missed the little sign at the start of this tunnel into Livorno which read simply...2200mt...(a reference here to our previous entries about the Italian racers...drivers I mean...) and enough said on that topic (we do after all have a Greek Father and Jewish Mother respectively) But as you can tell we are safe and sound and writing once again!

Yesterday was a short 30 miles through Livorno along the beach to Pisa

What can I say about Pisa? A landmark, a place where everyone comes from all over the world to take a photo of themselves pretending to be holding up the tower. Its very funny to see all of these people acting like that. Its a great town full of restaurants, bars, and nightlife. We camped in the center of town, a site fully equipped with hot showers, a pool, bar, and market. What else do you need? Being here, camping each night, makes it clear to me that simplicity, to be surrounded by nature, is the best medicine. Today we head out towards Cinque Terre.

And one last thing, we finally found a bowl of pasta. Belissimo!