Pisa is a pretty small town actually and if it wasn't for the leaning tower It would certainly not be world renown. Luckily for us it was pretty much on the way anyway so we didnt really have anything to lose by spending the night there on our way up to Milan. To be honest the most interesting thing in Pisa that we saw besides the leaning tower was a dog poo that was stuck to a wall in the main street about 15cm off the ground. I have absolutely no idea how to explain that.
So we headed off early to to Milan and stopped in at Florence on the way and I showed the other two around quickly. Our few hours in Florence was he highlight of the trip for kelly so far because she managed to find the pizzeria that the Jersey shore cast worked in for the upcoming season to be aired and we had lunch there.
All that's really in Milan from what we saw of it is a lot of shops. There was only one cathedral worth seeing (got some real good photos) and it's right in the middle of the largest shopping plaza I've ever seen. Probably one of the highlight of Milan for me was a stupid street salesman (they're everywhere in big Italian cities, especially Milan) who was trying to sell a bubble gun to a lady:
Salesman: "2 Euro?"
Lady: "no"
Salesman: "1 Euro!?"
Lady: "NO."
Salesman: ".....3 Euros?"
As the title would indicate we were the. Meant to go from Milan to Geneve in Switzerland. After lining up for half an hour to find find out why the train seat reservation machine was letting me reserve seats to Geneve the lady told me the 12:30 train was cancelled and the 5:30 train is full. So she wrote Down a list of trains to catch successively that would eventually get me to Geneve, hopefully.
By the time we waited for connecting trains we only got as far as a little town called 'Brig-Glis' so we walked to the nearest hotel and got a room for the night. Pretty much from the moment we boarded the train in Milan the temperature began to fall and by the time we arrived in the alpine town the jumpers and jeans had returned from their long hiatus in Italy. There's snow capped mountains, white water rapids and mountains that disappear into the clouds surrounding this little place so naturally there's some amazing photos. Speaking of which I honestly haven't found a computer with a USB port in over a week! I even went to an Internet cafe and paid then found out the computers had no USB ports :(
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