Wayne and Lisa's Triathlon Adventures: Italy

So today ended our French visit and off to Italy we headed.

What a journey. Am learning to hate driving in Europe, but that is the price you have to pay for the sites and experiences.

I thought yesterdays drive was good, but today's took the cake. Heading North East out of Nice into Italy the road along the coastline and through the mountains is unbelievable. Maybe not so much from an outright view perspective, but the height of the road and the actual effort that has gone into building the road is amazing. Pictures from the car won't do it justice, was just incredible and I have nick named it the "skyway".

Arrive at Pisa and that is a pretty cool place to visit as most have always heard about the leaning tower. To see it in person was worthwhile and seems to defy logic that it is still standing. One thing that I learnt today, was that they took a couple of breaks while building it, The first break being a 100 years or so, the second less, but in total they took 200 odd years to build that sucker. and they continued to build it even though it was leaning> Call me crazy, but that seems weird.

From there we headed to Florence and well, we thought the trip into Paris was tough, getting to our hotel here was a mission. Tired now, so will update with more tomorrow.

Lisa and her 'Nice' beach rocks (wonder whether we can pull off a Leanne....)