Marco our coushsurfing host has this very cool penthouse apartment on the 7th floor of this building, and from the patio there are great veiws of the surrounding area. Amazingly Marco has given us entire place to use and he is staying at his girlfriend Sylvia's place for the weekend. Remarkable since he doesnt know us rom a bar of soap.
The aaprtment is very cool and it also has a foot washer. Our bedroom.
Me hard at work in the living room.
Marco's evil cat
And the garage.
We needed to got o the Mugello circuit to pick up our tickets for the Italian moto gp this weekend. Many of you that know engines will have heard of the 2 banger and the 4 banger. Well this is the very rare Italian G banger.
We collected our tickets without drama and headed into the beautiful Tuscan countryside.
Stopped for a lunch at a resturant with a great veiw which unfortunatly you cant see because of the smog and heat haze,
We think it was a school camp but luckily ther were a couple of yummy mummies there and Sam reckons she saw Fabio.
Hada great pasta lunch. Just like Nona's
A big storm was brewing in the distance which just made the veiw all the more spectacular.
Pisa is a massive tourist trap. Pretty, but more Americans than Italians.
Cant belive they flock here in their millions to see some old shit box building that might fall on them and kill them at any time. My first impression was this is pretty lame.
The other building near it is also about to collapse.
The tower actually looks a more impressive when you look at it from a different angle.
I reckon this is the best angle though. (Coppers walked around the corner seconds after this shot was taken)
We were robbed when we paid over $20 for 2 Gelati. Called the police but they were busy stuffing cash into plain paper bags....not sure what that was about. I think I will report it to the Italian president Roberto Bellisconi when I get home. He''ll sort it out. Cant have corruption can we?
I should have paid more attention to the name of the shop. It really did costa
Told Karen to take us home and she got totally lost and led into the ancient city of Lucca.
The veiws down the narrow alleyways was very nice and noone told me or Karen we wer'nt supposed to ride the bike down them.
We eventually made it out and headed for home, Straight into the previous mentioned storm. Roads were treacherous.
It didnt last for long though and we soon made it out to the sight of a beautiful rainbow over Florence.
There are 2 million people in Florence and 1.8 million of them ride scooters. Marco is one of them. Despite having a 650 strom in the garage the scooter is the vehicle of choice for speeding recklessly around the city streets and running red lights.
We met him at home and we went to pick up his beautiful girlfriend Sylvia from the station as we were going out for Pizza.
Despite having blutooth headset. Marco prefers the Italian proven hansfree system of shoving the phone up inside his helmet. Everyone does it here and they all ride around chatting endlessly. Its hilarious.
Marco and Sylvia are passionate about there home city and took us on a brilliant twilight tour of the city. Marco was an excellant tour guide pointing all the historic places and explaining the history. Was great fun and better than any paid tour.
We met up with friends Alex and the gorgeous Juliana. Company and pizza was awesome.
Juliana also uses the trusty handfree system on her scooter.
Then continued our awesome night time florence tour.
Was a fantastic night with brilliant people.
Tomorrow Mugello....Valentino Rossi's mechanic Alex briggs has promised to leave a pair of side cutters near the paddock fence, so it should be a great day. :-)
Thank you Guy. You have just ruined it for me. I now no longer need to travel to Florence.
Posted by: Mark O'Keeffe | July 02, 2011 at 06:22 PM