The first cheer of the evening rang out from the Piazza die Cavalieri, the old political centre of medieval Pisa, as Italy went 2 nil up. A little later, as the wood fired Quattro Stagioni was being washed down with a fine vino Rosso another jubilation filled the air ...
This time it signified that the mighty footballing nation of Iceland had ejected England from Europe, for the second time in only a week!
Obviously, by putting Bjork up front and having Magnus Magnussen play just behind Sigur Ros had worked a treat and had secured a great Icelandic victory. Either that or the thick wind-bag kickers had listened to BoJo last week and had misunderstood when he had asked them to leave Europe!
After breakfast the following morning inside the Royal Victoria, one of Italy's oldest hotels overlooking the banks of the central River Arno it was time to explore. Pisa isn't a big town so the best way to do it was to ride around it so we badgered the bike mechanic at the bike shop next door to lend us a couple of sturdy rusting tourers and off we pedalled.
By lunchtime we had taken in most of the sights, cycled up narrow cobbled alleyways and had ridden either side of the river in and out the medieval walls and finally while stopping off for a well earned 'gelateria', sustained a puncture....
Today's track comes from the lyrics of a Smiths classic, 'This Charming Man'.
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