firenze

so after a two-day stay in rome we moved on to florence by eurostar!! saw a funny and talkative chinese young boy who was fidgeting in his seat, seemed afraid of missing his stop. he looked funny. but it's not that funny anyway cuz he spoke little english and he travelled alone fr china to italy to get a job here. btw, on a total irrelevant note, this guy came fr my late grandpa's kampung wth. no wonder papa talked to him like catching up wiv an old fren. his biggest dream was to be a shoe retailer in italy, dun play-play.

after settling down at the hotel, we went for food hunting again. pama always complained of feeling hungry so we had lunch at a chinese restaurant. then took a bus to the leaning tower of pisa. this tower is a bell tower of the cathedral next to it. i dunno wth we hav to be here. maybe for its popularity as one of the new seven wonders. it actually goes defying gravity since dunno how many hundred years ago.

pisa, dunno leaned at how many degrees.

bearbear at piazza del duomo. duomo means cathedral in italian, the tower is just beside this duomo.

bearbear at pisa.

ok lah, standard illusory pose in pisa. pushing this tilting tower back up.

i hav shown enough the pics of bearbear and pama. so this is the leaning me wiv the leaning tower.

you are given ONLY 30mins to climb up this building wiv 20 or 30 ppl at one go. not more than that, otherwise this tower is gonna topple. *choy, touchwood*

close-up of the tower.

mama at second floor. this lady was lazy to climb stairs. so she din get to the top.

papa at the top of pisa.

us, overlooking the city of pisa.

going down, say byebye. slippy steps. i tell you, this old building has cooling effect. you wont feel stuffy going up and down!!