Day 37 just a little slice of Pisa!

The lads in the room last night were a great laugh, but I really didn't need lights on at 1am! I wake to early for that. 

That said they were a good bunch. 

Getting up after eating a yoghurt for breakfast and queueing for the loo only two in the hostel is not really enough! 

Still I'm in Pisa and I'll make of it what I can! 

there are some really nice real murals and some great architecture

a river through these town always adds a bit to the feel this one is called the Arno 

and with a bright sunny day it's looking great! 

It doesn't take long to reach the leaning tower 

silly picture taken as is required! And some external shots of the Battisterio Di San Giovanni 

and the Cathedral di Pisa none of which I paid to enter I'm enjoying the sun too much! 

i head into a little market just outside the town walls where about 40 stalls were all selling the same plastic towers t-shirts and caps.. nah they had no more luck than the guys selling fake Rolex watches by the tower! 

There are some nice things to see here but I'm not going to stretch it out for a day! And with bad weather coming in a few days I decided to cut my losses and head to Rome early booking a train and hostel for four nights starting tonight!

The train journey is over three hours to Rome and the familiar scenery with the Mediterranean on my right is a little hazy until sunset where try as I might I was foiled every time I tried to get a sunset picture!

it's been a regular thing with on train photography that you always get an obstruction on the picture you're trying to capture! 

Into Roma Termini and out of the station into the dark of the evening, I've got a flare up of a knee injury for some reason, so after a quick snack pizza for tea I'm into a local pharmacy for some pain killing gel, hopefully that helps. 

My hostel is only a few streets away from the station and conveniently for my Rome visit so is a metro station, a quick walk and I'm booking in, sitting on my bunk I realise the travel fatigue is back so I get an early night glad that I'd already eaten!.