Visitors in our bed and a wonky erection

So with all the excitement of actually trying to avoid death/serious injury or just watching it with a beer now behind us it’s back to joining the slow moving procession of tourists either following the tour guide’s flag or gormlessly wandering around taking photos of yet another church or statue.
Some news though...I was cursing my old mosquito mates after our first night of two in Florence but after some research it seems that I got munched by bed begs. Horrible big red itchy spots that coming to think of it I’ve had before (no, not at home thank you) that must have come from either the spare pillow or the warm blanket that got removed from the wardrobe and is never washed.
Other bad news was that as luck would have it ;-) all the museums are closed on Mondays here meaning no more having to stare at pictures of somebody’s imaginary friend among other fables. So then a long walk around the city followed and it turned out that a lovely view was to be found (for free would you believe it?) from Michelangelo’s Piazza high to the south east of Florence. On the way through the not so touristy streets we also found the answer to the many ‘Banksy’ type modifications of road signs that we happened to notice from place to place. It turns out that not surprisingly it’s the work of some art shop/studio. Despite knowing that most modern art is total crap I actually quite liked this as I do some of ‘Banksy’s’ stuff. As much as I was prepared to leave Florence with this alone (if you’re reading this Samantha) we did attempt to get into the Uffizi gallery the following morning but a monster queue meant that this wasn’t really possible and so we saddled up for...
Pisa. As a city it’s pretty small and a welcome respite from the hordes of tourists (yes I’m aware of the irony) as apart from a hundred or so hanging around the leaning tower it’s pretty low key. What was nice was that 1, the tower and cathedral area is free to enter (but of course €15 should you wish to climb) and 2, you can sit on the grass and relax which doesn’t seem like much but everywhere else similar we’ve been to thus far is surrounded by concrete, roads and shops. It was also nice to see something iconic that I first remember seeing in ‘Superman’ as a kid god knows when?