Pisa and Florence

After a good night in Sienna and a fantastic free breakfast, we catch a few trains, running on time, and arrive about 15.00 in Pisa. After according to Lonely Planet "a brisk 1.5 km walk through the lovely city center you Will find the leaning tower, which is why you're here in the first place." They were right on both counts.We do the walk and get to the town. Apparently there are no tourists, so we are able to climb the tower right away or after just a 10 minute wait. 300 some odd steps later and we're on top of a relatively famous flawed structure that is really quite pretty. I look around and I think of 2 things.
First, I am exactly able to fit in the stairs across my shoulders, so I think that the folks must have been smaller or thinner than I back in the day (probably both).Second, each of the steps is marble, which means that someone carried up the stuff to the place int eh tower in which it was placed.
A walk back, a panini and a beer and we are on the train to Florence.
After walking around for about 30 minutes to find the hotel after a long bus ride that resulted from hopping off at the wrong spot, we finally found our incredibly swanky hotel, grab a dinner from a supermarket next door and attempt to get our clothes washing in the sink.
Tomorrow Florence and the results of my sink washing...