The second stop on our cruise was Pisa. It was by far our least favorite place. We docked in Livorno which is a very dirty town. Most port towns are dirty but this town was down-right atrocious! The streets were filthy and the people were very rude. We chose not to do any tours, just to go on our own. So our free shuttle bus dropped us off in the middle of Livorno and it seemed like no one spoke English there, or at least they didn't want to speak to us. We finally figured out how to buy a bus ticket into Pisa. We got into Pisa and had already pre-booked a Hop On Hop Off bus ticket. So we went about trying to find one of the stops for the HOHO bus. Boy was that hard! Luckily, we took our iPhone with us so we were able to put the street name into the maps and try to figure out where we were. So we finally found one of the stops and got on the bus and made our stop at the Leaning Tower. I think it was a mix between the heat and how hard it was to get around but I was not impressed by the Leaning Tower. It is just a big structure with a million people standing in front of it and thousands of street vendors rearing to rip you off. So we got back on the HOHO bus and rode around Pisa. We didn't find anywhere else we wanted to stop and thankfully we didn't. We made our way back to our original bus stop that the Livorno bus dropped us off at and we couldn't find a place to buy a return bus ticket. So we searched for 2 hours for a ticket counter and finally went into the train station to ask for help. They were completely useless and very rude to us so we just waited at the bus stop for the next bus to come and buy our ticket that way. The driver had sold all of her tickets but was gracious enough to just let us on anyways. I guess she could tell we were frazzled. We got back to Livorno and waited for the free shuttle back to the cruise ship. That is where we met our tour guide for Rome...
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