On our last day in Florence, my sister and I went to the Medici Chapels. The Medici family was a prominent family in Florence who began their rise to power in the late 14th century. Quite an interesting family as 4 popes came from the family, as well as the medici bank, the largest bank in Europe during the 15th century. So, we thought this family was legit enough for us to meander through their chapels.

 For seven euros, you can tour inside the chapels and take a step back into the times of this wealthy family. With this price, you can climb the tower and see yet another breathtaking view of the city.

 Hi, sissy!

Now, we are not one to discourage anyone from doing what you want while on travels; however, we were the least impressed with the chapels. Maybe we would have had a different opinion if we did the chapels first. We planned on spending half a day in the chapels and were very surprised when we had completed the tour and the tower climb in an hour.

We are not ones to waste time and quickly found a cafe to plan our next adventure. 

My sister had the bright idea to venture to neighboring cities for more Tuscan fun- hell yes! We pulled out a map and looked at the options; first one that came to mind was Pisa! Only an hour away on high speed train, we proceeded to make our way to the train station for tickets. Trenitalia is the local train service and offers direct routes to Pisa every (approx) thirty minutes. We each paid 16 euros for our roundtrip ticket and were off to see the leaning tower!

 Pisa is a cute city but there is absolutely nothing else to do here except see the tower. You don’t have to worry about finding where to go because EVERYONE is walking to the center where the tower is posted up. You start to see the top of the tower, and the frenzy begins.

What is perhaps the best part of the tower is watching everyone leaning sideways, posing with their arms stretched out or hunched over. It is quite hilarious seeing this because you don’t see the end result on the other end of the camera. We acted too cool for this for about five minutes, then…

 We joined right in!

We opted to not go to the top of the tower because to us, the thing to do was see the Leaning Tower from the ground.

 We were in and out in under an hour to catch our return trip back to Florence.

Definitely worth the detour if you have the time to spare!