Day After Tomorrow in Florence

Here's a couple pics from pisa



















Alrighty, today was absolutely ridiculous.

So we're strolling through Florence, after our museum visit this morning (lots and lots of paintings on no breakfast, it was a struggle after the first couple hours), we go to find some big hill where there's supposed to be a great view. As we get up there we realise that it looks like there's some kinda italian spring break kinda thing going on in this Piazza. They've got american music playing and some guy talking very enthusiastically and it turns out we ran right into the show filming of TRL (that's 'total request live' for all you kids out there) for MTV Italy. There were tons of people there, and I'm not just talking about the regular tourist crews. We got to mix with the yocal locals. There were even busty girls taking their shirts off (relax, don't get too excited they were still wearing bras), but still...not something you see every day (well...it is something that I see everyday but I figured that'd be pretty exciting for everyone else).

At this point in the day, it's bright as shit, and hot as blazes, so we toss on some sunscreen, like the responsible kids we are. And no more than 20 minutes later, the biggest rainstorm I've ever seen rolls in. I'm talking 'Day after tomorrow' style here. And wherever we went the lightning was about half a mile away, because once every thirty seconds or so, there would be ear bleeding thunder about half a second after a nice big lightning flash (you see what I did there, I used the seconds to miles away lightning/thunder rule). So we tried to rush back to the hostel. But it turned out were about...20 minutes away...by running. This is what happens when you do what I call Eurowandering, you end up waaaaayyy farther away than you thought you were.

Anyways, we're running back, soaked to the bone, and then good people, hail the size of marbles started falling from the sky. It was amazing, and don't worry we got pics and video of it. You see, in every town we go to, we do this thing where I circle big John with the camera in a nice place to get the idea of what it's like. So, my camera being water proof and all, we decided to do the circle thing out in the hail and rain, so that should look cool.

We were almost back to the hostel when we hit our 'home free' street, Via Nazionale, (which ironically, was the same name as the street we stayed on in Rome so...I don't know what that's about). And we turn the corner and via nazionale...is a river. The water is anywhere from upto 6 inches deep at arts, and it was flowing down the street. So up to our ankles in water and dripping wet we finally got back to our hostel.