Venice, Italy Day 7

April 6, 2010

Day 7 Rimini-Pisa-Venice

I woke up today thinking that we might have been wrong about what time our train departed.  It's a good thing I woke up, because it turned out instead of our train leaving at 07:30 like I had said the day before, it actually left at 07:01, so needless to say, we were rushed.  Thankfully we made the train, starting our insane trip for the day.  We took a train from Rimini through Bologna to Firenze (Florence) to get to Pisa.  In Pisa, we walked 20 min to the leaning tower of Pisa.  Very cool!  Definitely leaning, it is also falling a part.  They had boundaries preventing anyone from coming within 3 metres of the building.  We had wanted to go up to the top of the tower, but unfortunately the earliest tour was 15 min before our next train left.  We were there around 11:30 and the earliest tour was at 14:40!  I had tried to book tickets before, but had a heck of a time finding the site on line, so we lost out on that opportunity.  Oh well.  We took a bunch of pictures and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine and then headed back to the train station.  Our next train took us from Pisa to Firenze and then to Venice (through Bologna, though we didn't change trains this time).  It was amazing driving into Venice.  The water was everywhere.  It looked so gorgeous.  At the station, we did some more booking of tickets, got ourselves all the info we needed then headed to catch a waterbus (a ferry of sorts) to get to our hotel.  It was an awesome boat ride.  By the time we got to our hotel, it was dark.  We had some dinner next door (very yummy) walked around a little bit and then spent some time using our free internet at the hotel.  It was a good day.