Pisa

Yesterday was our first full day in Florence. We visited Santa Maria Novella and
then San Lorenzo where Galileo and Michelangelo are buried. We made a scenic
route to Fiesole that overlooked the whole city of Florence. On the bus ride
back to the hotel Dennis missed the bus but chased it down with great speed.
That evening we went to Pisa. Sam Brothers did his speech on the leaning tower
and he was going on about how the Americans saved the tower. We took heaps of
pictures with the tower. There were heap of Moroccans around who were claiming
that their watches and sunglasses had a five-year guarantee.

Today we stood in the line for two hours outside the Uffizi Gallery where Rosser
and Van Rijn gave a factual and funny speech. The collection at the Gallery was
amazing, the most famous of which were the Birth of Venus and the Allegory of
Spring by Botticelli, Lippi's Madonna and Child and Michelangelo's annunciation.

That afternoon a few of us went to the very picturesque town of Siena. Il Duomo
and the town hall with a huge bell tower were the main attractions that we
visited there. Before getting back on the bus to Florence we bought gelatos from
the most fantastic shop that had nearly thirty different flavours.
— Jack Anderson