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Our last day at the farm was last thursday and highly anticipated. We got up early and packed all our stuff up, Jessie packed the night before, and then we got a quick breakfast and said our goodbyes. Gian Luca drove us to the train station and we hopped a train to Pisa for the late morning and early afternoon. Once we arrived in Pisa we took a quick bus ride to the "Field of Miracles" which is the main tourist attraction in the city. It is an enclosed giant grassy field with a baptistry, a cathedral, and the famous bell tower (the leaning tower of pisa). Cemeteries also lie on the outer edge of the area along with a bunch of touristy knick-knack stands. It is quite a spectacular site, because unlike the rest of Italy, the monuments are surrounded by grassy fields, very similar to a college campus, rather then plunked in the middle of a city. It gave us the feeling of being home! Of course, plus fifty billion tourists all posing with their arms in the air trying to hold up the distant tower. We of course had to partake in the fun, and took a couple of silly poses as well. After we walked around the park for a while, we headed off toward town to get a quick and cheap (£3 for two people!) lunch of sandwiches and pizza and then we went back to the fields for one more look around. Because we didn't want to spend too much time in Pisa, and we wanted to save our money for Florence, we didnt go into any of the sites (it cost £15 just to climb to the top of the tower) but we did pay £0.30 each to use the bathroom. After we saw enough of the field of miracles we followed Rick Steve's walk back to the train station through the center of Pisa. Because it was incredibly hot since it was the middle of the day, we stopped and got some gelato and had a nice leisurely walk to the train station. Pisa is an average Italian city other than the fabulous field of miracles, and we felt right at home after spending 3 weeks in the middle of nowhere italy.
Next stop...florence.
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