I think after our time in Rome and Pompeii Christine and I were ready for a little rest from the ruins and figured it would be good to book a nicer place to stay at in Pisa, our next destination in Italy. All we really wanted to see there was the Leaning Tower, so we would have planty of time to just relax, do a little laundry, watch a little satellite T.V. and just chill out. Alas it was not to be! We did book a nice place there, but due to some linguistic misunderstandings and it being so far from the train station it took us an hour to finally figure o
ut how to get to the place! It was all good once we arrived, the staff were friendly, the room was nice and we figured NOW we could finally relax! And we did, until the next day, when we wanted to go out to see the infamous Leaning Tower. After a stretch of perfect weather in Italy our luck finally ran out and when we arrived in town to see the Tower it of course started to rain....pour actually. We got a few decent shots with tower but nothing especially good. To escape the rain we ducked into the large Cathedral that was located next to the Tower. It was quite beautiful inside with many paintings, a huge intricately carved pulpit and an entire skeleton of a saint that they've preserved since the guy died some 400 years ago! A little morbid but kind of cool to see! (They did have a cloth and mask covering him and he was in a glass case so it wasn't sooo bad). We spent a little time in a nearby museum of the Cathedral as well and I was thouroughly impressed with the huge choir boo
ks they used in the Middle Ages, mom this pic is for you! So when we were ready to leave it was still pouring outside so Christine and I tried to make do with the lone umbrella the hotel borrowed to us as we tried to make our way back to the hotel. A little frustrating I must say since my feet were soaked, it was miserably cold and we just found out we had to wait another hour until our bus arrived to get us back to the hotel! All part of the adventure right!? Well the adventure continued when we got back to the hotel. We desperately needed to do some laundry so the hotel kindly allowed us to use their facilities...which we should not have done! The washing machine left our clothes completely waterlogged (no spin cycles in Italy?). We attempted to use their dryer but it only served to colour our clothes pink, so we hung them up all over our room instead
but it was so humid from the rain that by the time we wanted to leave the next day none of our clothes were even close to being dry! AHHHH so much for our relaxing time in Pisa! So we packed up, wet clothes and all, and headed to Milan where the air was much drier and was much kinder to our clothes! We even dried them local style and hung a whole bunch of stuff out our fourth floor window! The ledge out our window was also perfect for storing milk and cheese overnight! We had no fridge but needed stuff for breakfast so we just left it all on our window ledge overnight to stay cold! Milan was not as beautiful as some of the other places in Italy but still nice....for the shopping! We didn't do too much of it because of the lack of space in our lauggage but I did buy a bag to replace the old juice bag purse I've been using the last few years! I know some of you will be happy to see that thing retired! Being the fashion mecca for the wealthy that Milan is, we did do a little window shopping on Via Napoleane with the Prada, Dior, Armani types...but we relegated ourselves to the discount shopping street and shopped at Phard, Pimkie and Pfaff!
We saw a sweet Lamborghini parked on the expensive street and so of course I had to take a pic! The green colour was not so impressive but I know a few of you might be able to appreciate the car itself in spite of the colour! Other than that Milan was not too exciting...so on to Germany we travelled today! We spent a long day on three different trains but again the scenery made it so worth it! We went from Milan to Zurich so the Swiss Alps were magnificent, especially since there was a fresh layer of snow....something we haven't seen for awhile! Another memorable sight was the huge inflatable Lindt Easter Chocolate bunny we saw en route as well! The Swiss take their Easter chocolate very seriously! It would have been nice to spend a little more time in Zurich, it looked like a really beautiful place...So now we're in Augsburg Germany, staying in a really nice hostel. Tomorrow we're heading out to see the Neuschwanstein Castle, which I'm really excited about!
ut how to get to the place! It was all good once we arrived, the staff were friendly, the room was nice and we figured NOW we could finally relax! And we did, until the next day, when we wanted to go out to see the infamous Leaning Tower. After a stretch of perfect weather in Italy our luck finally ran out and when we arrived in town to see the Tower it of course started to rain....pour actually. We got a few decent shots with tower but nothing especially good. To escape the rain we ducked into the large Cathedral that was located next to the Tower. It was quite beautiful inside with many paintings, a huge intricately carved pulpit and an entire skeleton of a saint that they've preserved since the guy died some 400 years ago! A little morbid but kind of cool to see! (They did have a cloth and mask covering him and he was in a glass case so it wasn't sooo bad). We spent a little time in a nearby museum of the Cathedral as well and I was thouroughly impressed with the huge choir boo
ks they used in the Middle Ages, mom this pic is for you! So when we were ready to leave it was still pouring outside so Christine and I tried to make do with the lone umbrella the hotel borrowed to us as we tried to make our way back to the hotel. A little frustrating I must say since my feet were soaked, it was miserably cold and we just found out we had to wait another hour until our bus arrived to get us back to the hotel! All part of the adventure right!? Well the adventure continued when we got back to the hotel. We desperately needed to do some laundry so the hotel kindly allowed us to use their facilities...which we should not have done! The washing machine left our clothes completely waterlogged (no spin cycles in Italy?). We attempted to use their dryer but it only served to colour our clothes pink, so we hung them up all over our room instead 
but it was so humid from the rain that by the time we wanted to leave the next day none of our clothes were even close to being dry! AHHHH so much for our relaxing time in Pisa! So we packed up, wet clothes and all, and headed to Milan where the air was much drier and was much kinder to our clothes! We even dried them local style and hung a whole bunch of stuff out our fourth floor window! The ledge out our window was also perfect for storing milk and cheese overnight! We had no fridge but needed stuff for breakfast so we just left it all on our window ledge overnight to stay cold! Milan was not as beautiful as some of the other places in Italy but still nice....for the shopping! We didn't do too much of it because of the lack of space in our lauggage but I did buy a bag to replace the old juice bag purse I've been using the last few years! I know some of you will be happy to see that thing retired! Being the fashion mecca for the wealthy that Milan is, we did do a little window shopping on Via Napoleane with the Prada, Dior, Armani types...but we relegated ourselves to the discount shopping street and shopped at Phard, Pimkie and Pfaff! 
We saw a sweet Lamborghini parked on the expensive street and so of course I had to take a pic! The green colour was not so impressive but I know a few of you might be able to appreciate the car itself in spite of the colour! Other than that Milan was not too exciting...so on to Germany we travelled today! We spent a long day on three different trains but again the scenery made it so worth it! We went from Milan to Zurich so the Swiss Alps were magnificent, especially since there was a fresh layer of snow....something we haven't seen for awhile! Another memorable sight was the huge inflatable Lindt Easter Chocolate bunny we saw en route as well! The Swiss take their Easter chocolate very seriously! It would have been nice to spend a little more time in Zurich, it looked like a really beautiful place...So now we're in Augsburg Germany, staying in a really nice hostel. Tomorrow we're heading out to see the Neuschwanstein Castle, which I'm really excited about!
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