Today starts early with a bright blue sky and swallows flying in formation. We are pleased to be heading home. Bob will have missed us.
Our train leaves at 10.01 but our flight leaves Pisa at 15.50, so we have time to kill somewhere. Val is voting for a walk in Pisa to take in the old town.
Our train was a little bit late but we still managed to get a seat eventually. Val and I got off at the station just before the Pisa Main Terminal as this is where the Leaning Tower and the Cathedral are. We were just inundated by people and as we have cases with us we didn’t go too far. We walked to within easy distance of the Cathedral and the Leaning Tower and took photographs
We found the nearest place for coffee was McDonald’s, facing a street market but in blazing sunshine, absolutely boiling hot .
After coffee we walked back to the station only to find that their next train wasn’t for over an hour. Our only solution was to walk to Pisa Central and get the shuttle bus to the airport
Val got on the train and I got off to take a quick picture of the train and before I knew it the train pulled out of the station without me. There’s a little bit of a high point for us. I’m waiting at the Pizza Central station and Val’s gone
Eventually the train came back and I jumped on and met up with Val at the airport, where we bumped into Valerie and Malcolm, who were standing around because you can’t check in until 2.5 hours before the flight . In the airport we had a delay of over an hour and were supposed to get away by 15.20. We didn’t take off until after 17.25.
Val and Peter Ball are ....... 