Happy Anniversary to us! We went off to find the bus station and book our tickets for San Gimignano and were on the bus and on our way by 10.30. We had to change buses at Poggibonsi and there was a half hour wait between buses so we went to get a coffee. I made our second drinks mistake since we arrived (Tony asked for a latte on the first day and ended up with a nice glass of hot milk!). I decided to have hot chocolate... when Tony brought it back it looked as i...

Florence is a pretty noisy city. It's all huge wooden doors that slam theatrically and cars, motorbikes and sirens. I'm sure it wasn't my snoring that kept Tony awake... Breakfast doesn't start until 8.30 so we didn't hurry ourselves this morning. After a nice breakfast which included croissants with cherry jam, we wandered down to the railway station to board a train to Pisa. The station is VERY busy and confusing so we asked a uniformed woman for help. She dire...

We set off really early this morning (just after 6.00am) trying not to wake Geoff and Lynn until we realised that we couldn't lock the door from the outside. It was only after we'd already woken them that Lynn mentioned we could have locked the door then posted the key back through the letterbox - silly us. We're just not used to having a letterbox in the front door! It was a good job Geoff told us to leave early to miss the rush hour. We managed to get to ou...