Pisa and Chianti

We were so excited to get out of the hostel in Genova that we got up at 6:40 and were out the door by 7:30! We caught a train to Pisa, which was about 2 or 3 hours away. The train's final destination was Rome, so it was pretty crowded when we got on. We got kicked out of our seats by some woman who had made reservations for our seats.... we didn't even KNOW people could make reservations!! So we moved on to the next seat, only to be kicked out at the next stop :( Kim and I wandered the train in our frame packs, desperately looking for a place we could sit down.....when we discovered AN EMPTY BOX. Like, the boxes with 6 seats people reserve in a little box with curtains and privacy and EVERYTHING. So Kim and I pulled up the arm rests and pulled across the curtain, turned on the AC and went to sleep. Take THAT, woman who kicked us out of our seats.

After our naps we arrived at Pisa:


And acted like tourists:



Followed by another train ride to Florence, and a bus ride out to Chianti, in the Tuscan vineyard land, where our hostel was. Kim and I desperately needed to do laundry, so we washed our clothes in the sink



and hung them on travel clotheslines in our room, which quickly became a giant puddle.

After that we went down to the hostel's common area and mentioned that we'd just done laundry in the sink and people mentioned that the hostel actually had free laundry services.....FAIL.

In other news, the hostel Tavarnelle had very friendly people, who we spent a lot of time with in the common room, but it wasn't crowded at all. Kim and I got our own room. Breakfast was yummy and included :D