Arose early to have breakfast at the site. We bought some fresh eggs from the site shop so had fried eggs on toast. After breakfast we let our food go down fully as our moms always told you before heading for a swim in the sea. The sea was a bit choppy so we kept the swim pretty short. After the swim we packed up the van, paid the bill (40 euro’s) and got on the road. Although this was one of the most expensive sites we stayed at, it was well worth it for the location and private beach and the price did include electric hook up which meant cold beers which, as I have mentioned before you can’t put a price on when its 30 degrees.
Back on the road again we headed for a brief stop in Pisa to get the text book photo and then the plan was to head to Florence.
We made decent time on the auto strade so were in Pisa by lunch time. We parked up about 3km from the tower and jumped on the bikes to cycle to the tower.
As you would expect the tower was packed with tourists. We took a few photos and then got a quick bite to eat which could only be one thing, Pizza!
The pizza was nice but not the best I’ve had but I’m sure the more time I spend in Italy the closer I will get to the prefect pizza.
Back on the road again we had about 150km to Florence, which seemed to fly by although we were cruising at about 60-65mph. Once in Florence we headed for the campsite that was recommended in the Lonely Planet book which we had been using most of the trip. The site was very busy upon arrival. We parked up and went to reception. Luckily for us they had space and we were soon directed to our pitch. When we parked up we realised that our 10m electric hook up cable would not reach to hookup point so we asked if we could be moved to another pitch was fine luckily and meant another few days of cold beers.
After setting up our home we did some much needed washing as I only brought clothes for 5 days and was running distinctly low on clean stuff. After stocking up on beer we chilled in the evening sun with a few games of cards ready for a day of walking round Florence.
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