We woke early and finished packing before going down to meet the taxi to the airport.
The airport is very close to Pisa and within ten minutes, we had arrived. We had a coffee and a croissant while waiting for the check in desk for Alicea's flight to open. Once she had checked in and joined the queue for departures we said our goodbyes, and I caught the bus back to the hotel. On the way, I bought a ticket for the Leaning Tower and the surrounding buildings.
I went up the tower (more steps!) and popped back to the hotel to check out before looking around the baptistry and cathedral.
I then went to find somewhere for lunch stopping on the way to watch as artist creating a picture using spray can paints. It was fascinating.
I then came across a huge market that spanned several streets selling everything from furniture to soap to records to pottery.
After an hour walking around that, I went to a restaurant in one of the piazzas near the Leaning Tower for lunch. The food was fine but the service was awful, I'm not sure whether it was because I was on my own - I wasn't even given any bread! So, I left no tip.
From there I went to look around the cemetery building that is part of the Leaning Tower complex. I'm sure that in its heyday it was fab, but as a museum, it lacks a certain something. It could be that virtislly none of the exhibits are labelled and those that are have label that read "square sarcophogus, 4th Century" or similar, and that's the extent of the information you get!
From there, I wandered back to the hotel to get my bags, picking up an ice cream on the way and caught the bus to the airport.
The plane was about 15 mins late taking off, but landed on time.
