How we spent our Valentine's Day

While people were busy planning what to wear to knock out their date for Valentine's Day, we spent the day driving from Torino to Pisa and then from there to Florence.

Our romantic lunch of pasta at a servizio area

Since we were in Italy, we had to go to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Apparently, in summer the queue to climb up the tower can get crazy long and the guidebooks actually recommend that you pre-book your tickets to guarantee that you get to climb the tower, and you have to arrive at the specified time otherwise you won't get to do it. Thankfully for us, it is still winter so there were no crazy queues. After paying up and depositing our bags, there was still some time before our scheduled climb up the tower, so we went off to the Duomo where Galileo supposedly developed his pendulum theory.

Where Galileo supposedly got bored during Mass and developed his pendulum theory

After that, it was to climb up the Leaning Tower. The Tower itself is actually not that high, but because of the slant, it does get a bit dizzy climbing up, or at least I felt dizzy, CS was perfectly fine. The view from the top was quite good and we were lucky that the rain had stopped when we arrived and the sun was out.

View from the top of the Leaning Tower

There was a Taiwanese tour group at the top of the tower too and they were snapping pictures like crazy. Otherwise, there were only a handful of other tourists there, I can't imagine how crowded it will get during summer, I guess travelling when its cold has its perks.

We didn't exactly do the cliche shot of holding up the Tower but we did do a shot of me flicking it. I would say it is definitely one of those things you absolutely HAVE to do when you are in Italy as nothing beats seeing the Tower in real life.

The Flick.

The Tower and the Cup?

After that, it was onward to Florence and we ended it off with a dinner of pasta/ dinner. Definitely one of our more exciting Valentine's Day so far.