Pisa is many things but mostly level.

After the Treno and the Texan and the miracoli I needed a good nights rest. The authentic monkio monastics but restorede to moderno standarditonios" fossabanda di sante Croce". Was unforgetsobiale!

Very prettyBuildings in a monkish sort of way.

 



Our cell was the room below the campanille. I had hoped the windows were on the other side.....

Apparently monks wear hair shirts under their robes and for obvious reasons no underwear.

It was 42 degrees in English in the roomio.

 

Dawn finally cracked the hot night sky and I dragged myself to the breakfast ovens and allowed the body heati absorbed during the night to curdle the milk and prove the buns.

 

After a 45 minuti ice bath I was ready to get Pisa.

 

I like the funny foto

 

Then I went the of house of the shell in the orto botanico. The little stars shaped things you can see just above the ground floor piano look like the abalone shekels insides. Reminds me of home.

After the orto some more the leaning

 

And some more adjusting to leaning

 

and some more leaning Tigre and hidden bilglitiere.

 

then back along the majestico Arno promenade to the house the fossabando.

On the way i go in the giovanni domenici bici emporium. Giovanni is the 1961 Giro de Pisa roadrace champion. His a shop fantastico. He has his winning "limited editzione" colnago on the mura of his workshops. Is a bellasimo as a modern celeste.

He let me sit his bicycle. His daughter take photo with funny camera and rush back inside and start the giggling. She had bike riders legs.

He say to me " ride well marco, there be nothing like a bike".well that what I thought he said, his dialect was I think particular to that street in Pisa.

We, me and Giovanni, we know these things

 

 

The Fossabanda has the giant televions, I watched the Italiano version of sea patrol and then we beat gernania in the round ball.

I have the smelly cheese in the tv room. Not everybody like fromage de odouronio....

Lucky for me.

Talking of lucky, tomorrow the Lucca.

Sierra.