Last day in Florence

Ciao Tutti!!
Firstly, thanks everyone for your emails, I am loving hearing from you, molto grazie!

I took the train to Pisa yesterday,

and once I got off the train, I followed the crowd.  After a while I ran out of road and had to veer left, - this is what I saw  -

I kept walking towards the tower and found a small pizzeria close by so had a delicious salami pizza and sat and enjoyed the view.

 

(the view I had while I ate my lunch)

  

The tower leans a lot more than I thought and it isn't as high as I thought.  There were hundreds of people around doing the tourist photo thing.  I asked a woman to take my photo - she did, literally.  I meant to include the tower in the background!  I ended up with another self portrait -

Today (Tuesday) I walked in to the Uffizi Gallery, stopping once again at the Ponte Vecchio.  I stopped and had caffe'- I am LOVING Italian caffe' - and band aided my poor feet, then walked on to the gallery. 

It was fantastic to see some of the art works that I had studied at Uni, and some others I had never seen before.  It was so freaking hot though, my hair was dripping, my top was wet through ... nice!  I sat in the shade when I came out of the gallery and had a delicious brunch of caffe' fredo e bruschetta then walked to the Duomo again, just because I can, and wandered around the streets until I came across a market where I got some linen pants and a lovely top.  The women here dress absolutely beautifully - even when they are wearing jeans and a tshirt they carry themselves beautifully.  The men - hmmmm what can I say!  You can certainly tell an Italian man from a tourist!
I have been using my Italian every day, a lot of Italians speak english to me but while they practise their english on me I practise my Italian on them!  Some speak Italian back to me, if they speak very slowly I can mostly understand what they mean - like the man at the market who sold me three pairs of pants for the price of two - I understood that bargain! 

I'm off to Santa Margherita Ligure tomorrow for five nights.  I am hoping to get to a few of the Cinque Terre towns and have a bit of a relax while I am there.  I'm assuming I won't be walking as much as I have been, but who can tell!