oh yeah? well we have a leaning tower_

so my trip began in prague thursday morning (apr 21st) where we caught a train to berlin, hung out in the airport there and played spades all afternoon. and this was not the big, nice airport, it was the small kinda crappy discount airline airport way outside of the city. nonetheless, we got some euros out of the atm, and caught our easyjet flight to pisa that evening. when we arrived in pisa, it was already dark, and after a confusing bus experience, we managed to stumble upon our hostel, where we stayed in a camper, which was surprisingly cool. the next morning we went to the piazza dei miracoli and saw the tower complex (above) which includes, the baptistry, the cathedral and of course, the leaning tower (below). it was truly a sight, though. it is the weirdest feeling in the world to see in person something so historical that you have only seen in books. galileo actually performed gravity experiments there like 400 years ago. who would have thunk that a such an engineering folly would result in this, now so important, entity. and when i say they they have a leaning tower, i am not kidding. the only other thing worth noting in this town is the gelatto. so we high tailed it out of there that afternoon to catch a train to castiglion fiorentino to see some old friends.