Tue June 4 Florence / Pisa (Livorno), Italy

We had a private group tour planned for this morning so we ordered room service as a wake up call. 

It arrived at 6:20am and we were off the ship by 7:20am. Met our group on the pier and then waited for our bus, and waited and waited... Turned out the bus was not allowed onto the pier and we had to take a shuttle to the bus. It was almost 8:30am by the time we were finally on our way.

We arrived in Florence at almost 10am. We headed towards the Duomo which is a huge church. 

Walked around and then headed across the river and climbed up to Piazzale Michelangelo which has an amazing view of Florence. There is also a copy of David there.

We headed back down and crossed over Ponte Vecchio. 

Lots of gold sellers on the bridge. 

We walked around seeing more sights and then headed to San Lorenzo market. This is a large outdoor market with lots of leather goods.

Stopped for lunch and had a beer and shared a mushroom and prosciutto pizza - very yummy!

More walking, and we came across another copy of David and many other beautiful statues.

At 4pm we met our group at our bus but had to wait another 15 minutes for everyone to arrive. The ride back seemed very long as we were tired and my feet were killing me from all the walking.

We were back at the ship by 5:30pm.

We sat out on our balcony and had a few glasses of wine while sitting in the sun.

Up to the buffet for dinner and I played a whopping $10 at the casino.

Back to the cabin to watch a movie and rest my feet.

Monte Carlo, Monaco tomorrow!