Sunday, August 19, 2007

14th & 15th august 2007

Last Checkpoint: Pisa

another long train ride to pisa... 4 more hrs on the bumpy moving object! and when we finally got outta pisa centrale ( the train station), we realised all the shops were closed.. wth.. cuz the next day is some public holiday.. arghhh.. how unlucky can that be!!

left our stuff at the hotel and we went to visit the leaning tower of pisa!! it's so cool! heee.. we din climbed the tower though cuz the queue was damn long. We reached there ard 3 in the afternoon and the time we get to enter the tower was at 8pm at night... my gosh.. its a super long wait so we decided to just take photos and leave.. =)

*the tower!!

*smiles =)

we decided to head down to Florence the next day since there wasn't much stuff to do at Pisa.. took the bumpy moving object once again... and this time round, we got into a little trouble.. bahh. we din know we had to write the date on our europass cuz the previous times that we took the train the conductor will write it fer us. den this bloody irritating train conductor came shouting at us saying we were supposed to write the date before boarding the train. so he wanted to fine us. 50 Euro each. WTH!!!! so there was a little argument here and there cuz we just dun seem to understand why is it so hard fer him to write fer us cuz we din do anything wrong and it's not like we had no tickets or pass when we boarded the stupid train. so in the end he threatened to call the police.. and he did.. cuz we just dun wanna part away wif our money fer such unreasonable reason.

and ta-dah! the 3 of us ended up in the police station in the middle of the train ride.. and its seriously agonizing talking to italian police cuz they dun understand and they dun speak english! sher was losing her cool so we got her to shut up else it will only make matters worst. i felt so stupid talking to the police.. its like trying to make a 3 yr old kid understand wad i was trying to say.. all my hand gestures and stuff.. argh! somebody teach them ENGLISH!.. to think tt is the so called universal language. crap! so anyway.. after scanning thru our europass and looking at our passports.. they said. 'ok u can go' and i went '..........................'

thanx to tt stupid train conductor!! wasted our time.. if only i wasn't a foreigner.. i'll *f him upside down. *pissed.

waited fer another train to bring us to Florence.. and our luck certainly din changed. it's a PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN WHOLE OF EUROPE!!!! all the shops were freaking closed! (except those shops wif cheeena owners) arghhhh pissed me even more.. it's so so so so different from SG.. haha.. imgaine having orchard road close on a public holiday.. sg will be a dead city.. lol..

well.. since we had nothing to do.. we headed into this internet cafe.. chatted wif dear online fer awhile before heading off fer a late lunch and back to Pisa...

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our flight back to Oslo was at 6am in the morning.. haha... weird timing.. but its a budget airline!! so u can't expect much ya.. the hotel booked a cab fer us at 4am!! *yawn.. wad a time to wake up and prepare and do some last min packing..

the airport at Pisa is a nice place! so much better than the one at Rome.. not tt bad fer an early morning sight-see.. =)

*i'm finally heading back to my so called home fer the next 4 months.. =)