Emer and Eoin manage to go to the museums while Teo and I stay in bed all day.
Teo leaves Florence at 6pm and on my way back from the main station I have to watch how a man on a moped runs right into a woman. I couldn’t tell how bad it was but it definitely didn’t look good.
Since then I’m even more careful on the streets of Italy, where there seem to be no traffic rules whatsoever. We finish the day on our „balcony“ with a couple of other people we met.
4th of July
Emer, Eoin and I take the train to Pisa at 10.37.
That is of course not the train we looked up on the internet. (Italian AND Austrian website) Ours was supposed to leave at 10.33 so we could catch the connected train to Rome at 11.44.
There is no train at all at 10.33 and the later one is 10 minutes delayed and takes 1h20min instead of 1h so we miss the train in Pisa.
The three of us pay 5€ extra and catch another train at 1pm. I get off at Civitavecchia to take the ferry to Barcelona and have to say goodbye to my new lovely Irish friends because they are continuing to Rome. But I will see them soon in Cork
At the station I realise that I still remember the way to the harbour as we’ve already walked there once in 2003.
Two kilometers later I’m covered in sweat and two hours too early. I wait around, talking to random people and am finally allowed to get on the boat at 6pm.
There I share a room with a Brazilian girl. We are quite lucky as this is supposed to be a 4 women cabin.
She doesn’t speak any English and as I never got further than day 7 in my „Spanish in 4 weeks“ book I’m not But we talk with hands and feet like children and everything works out.
I go upstairs on the deck, have a little snack, use the internet for half an hour -which by the way costs me 5€!- and go to bed.















