day 19, massa

yday after i wrote my blog i watched a bit of the airshow which was cool, sat on the balcony of ellie's room with a german family that come to the same place on holiday and have done for 9 years, fuck knows why as the actual area we are staying with is wank. Ellie was drinking a litre and half of wine, and after the classic quote of "i'm australian, we don't get burned", in the space of half a hour she became super burnt and super smashed, this is around 8ish. on the way to  get some water she fell on a cactus so for the next 20 mins i was tweezing out all the shit from her legs, it was like operation without the shitty buzzing. she went off to bed and me and pat got a pizza and chilled out on the beach, having a chat till it got dark and took ourselves off to bed. had an amazing sleep and woke up to go to cinque terra, or 5 towns, and it's an italian national park, real pretty. we walked a stupid way to the train station, down a busy road with no pavement in an industrial state, but got the train to cinque terra and the weather was absolutely gorgeous. we did the coastal walks, walking through the old towns, and stumbled across this lil marina with people swimming. on the walk to the train in the morning this metal pole with bus info was not put in the ground, pat not knowing this went to read it and it upended slicing a rather nasty gash in his leg, but with that patched up and the sea water it;'s on its way to healing. we had a swim despite not having any cossies with us, just in our boxers (or jocks as aussies call em) and was bloody fab. we spent the day walking in cinque terra, occasionally jumping on a train and had a meal in one of the towns. having been in the sun all day (with sunscreen and hat) we were knackered, so got the train to la spezia and back to carrera station. instead of going down the industrial estate we took the road one over but parrellel that had pavement. after about a hour (it took 45 mins to walk to the trainstation) we realised we were getting closer to the mountains, not further away, so took us a hour and half to get home. got some more pizza and chilled out. the place we are staying in is not great, it's out of the way and near a italian tourish resort. there isn;'t any other backpackers here. however tomorrow we are waking up early (7:30!) to go to pisa for the day. i was going to spend a couple of days in pisa however i've heard there isn't that much to do and florence is far nicer, so will go there for the day and see how it is. i'm here for 2 more nights (tonight and tomorrow) and then off we go. i'm prob going to travel to florence with pat and ellie as that's where they are off to, however unsure about hostel at the moment. i'm off to bed now, proper tired and hopefully toothbrush is charged up enough for me to use, ciao x