Pisa
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Oct 27, 2026
Maisie AdamGUEST
So as opposed to, say, maybe somewhere further afield.
Maisie AdamGUEST
So I booked this inter-railing trip and just went basically in a downward line, starting in Milan and did... did Venice and Pisa and Florence and Naples and Sorrento and the Amalfi Coast and ended up down there.
Maisie AdamGUEST
And it was, it was really, it was really like, again, I'm very, I'll never get like this on podcasts, but here I am talking about how much I love the serenity of rivers and how affirming solo travel was, but it really was.
Maisie AdamGUEST
I think it's something that, you know, if I ever have kids, I'd encourage them to, to, to, at least once in their life go somewhere and and be and I don't I don't speak any Italian so to put yourself in that out of your comfort zone and Italians they're not like the Dutch where they're like well we're just really good English so we'll just speak to you in English or the French where they just tut at you and speak to you back in English Italians will tut at you but they'll speak back to you in Italian and I think that's really great and I think that's really cool to be experiencing and and be pushed to to to go and um sit and have dinner on your own at a lovely table and eat great food and not feel self-conscious about sitting on your own and and choose what choose choose however much you want to eat because you don't have to worry about if somebody's having a starter if you want to start around the main you go for it if you want to sit and have a coffee afterwards you go for have an apple spritz you go for it there was loads of times as well where like there would be a really great seat out on the front.
Neal BoortzHOST
Yeah, the violence is spreading to Italy.
Neal BoortzHOST
A Palestinian flag draped over the leaning tower of Pisa.
Neal BoortzHOST
No, I could go on and bore you with this.
Neal BoortzHOST
Our trip to the Soviet Union and a return trip to Russia.
Derek ClarkHOST
Thank you.
Derek ClarkHOST
And yeah, I was in Italy last week, Pisa and Florence, no less.
Derek ClarkHOST
So yeah, as you can imagine, I was loving life over there.
Derek ClarkHOST
Johnny, you've been to those places, haven't you? I know that you frequent Italy when you can.
Derek ClarkHOST
If you've been, folks, you know what I'm talking about.
Derek ClarkHOST
If you haven't...
Derek ClarkHOST
Went up the Pisa Tower as well, which was an experience.
Derek ClarkHOST
That was job dropping, by the way.
Michelle JohnstonHOST
The bridge is over the River Arno and takes central role as a postcard situation if in Florence.
Michelle JohnstonHOST
The Arno River runs all the way to Pisa, so certainly is significant historically in terms of trade and commerce or rivalry between the two Tuscan cities.
Michelle JohnstonHOST
On the other side of the river is the palatial Pitti Palace and the equally magnificent Boboli Gardens.
Michelle JohnstonHOST
This garden is a must visit and gives you a wonderful perspective and appreciation for the House of Medici and how this grand empire dominated the city's history.
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Michelle JohnstonHOST
You can go further from Florence and discover old world Etruscan antiquities.
Michelle JohnstonHOST
You could go to Prato, Arezzo, Cortona or beautiful medieval Siena, which is an hour away on the train.
Michelle JohnstonHOST
You can visit beautiful, charming Lucca and spend time hunting for slow food restaurants in Pisa.
Michelle JohnstonHOST
You could take a trip to Elba.
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
Yeah, and do you remember right
John CreedonGUEST
beside it was a place we called Pisa Land.
John CreedonGUEST
Now, Pisa's actually a town in Italy, but I'll have a pizza, a vegetarian pizza.
John CreedonGUEST
Do you remember? No, that's before your time.
John CreedonGUEST
But they were Pisa Land and Burger Land right beside each other.
John CreedonGUEST
And...
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
it did run its head in the tin it
George ElekHOST
But Paul, obviously, you know, you have dedicated a lot of your kind of post-playing career to anti-racism campaigning, being able to speak to someone who played a lot of games in England, in Scotland, with Celtic.
George ElekHOST
in Italy with Pisa as well.
George ElekHOST
What was your experience in the 80s and the 90s around racism within football and how prevalent it was in the game then?
Paul ElliottGUEST
To be candid, George, it was like the Wild West.
Paul ElliottGUEST
So I'm a young, you know, black boy then from South London in Woolwich and You know, living at Lewisham and Charlton and all those tough areas of, but very diverse areas of Southeast London, trying to apply my trade.
Paul ElliottGUEST
So it was challenging.
Paul ElliottGUEST
So I soon realized when I went on to different clubs, Charlton, Lewisham, Aston Villa, you know, Pisa in Italy, you know, the circumstances were very much the same.
Paul ElliottGUEST
It didn't really change.
Tom BilyeuHOST
It was insane.
Tom BilyeuHOST
There was a gigantic Palestinian flag draped over the leaning tower of Pisa, which was wild.
Tom BilyeuHOST
You had people protesting there.
Tom BilyeuHOST
I think that's where Greta Thunberg was.
Ernst BottinamaVOICE_ACTOR
Ernst Bottinama.
AbayiNARRATOR
Vincencio, an old gentleman of Pisa.
Mark SmithVOICE_ACTOR
Played by Mark Smith of Simpsonville, South Carolina.
AbayiNARRATOR
Lucencio, son to Vincencio, in love with Bianca.
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AbayiNARRATOR
A PUBLIC PLACE.
AbayiNARRATOR
ENTER LUCENZIO ENTRANIO.
M.B.VOICE_ACTOR
ah tradio since for the great desire i had to see fair padua nursery of arts i am arrived for fruitful lombardy the pleasant garden of great italy and by my father's love and leave am armed with his good will and thy good company my trusty servant well approved in all here let us breathe and haply institute a course of learning and ingenious studies Pisa, renowned for grave citizens, Gave me my being and my father first, A merchant of great traffic through the world, Vincentio, come of the Ventivoli.
M.B.VOICE_ACTOR
Vincentio's son brought up in Florence, It shall become to serve all hopes conceived, To deck his fortune with his virtuous deeds.
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
Yeah, and do you remember right
John CreedonGUEST
beside it was a place we called Pisa Land.
John CreedonGUEST
Now, Pisa's actually a town in Italy, but I'll have a pizza, a vegetarian pizza.
John CreedonGUEST
Do you remember? No, that's before your time.
John CreedonGUEST
But they were Pisa Land and Burger Land right beside each other.
John CreedonGUEST
And...
Brendan O'ConnorHOST
it did run its head in the tin it
Yehuda GebererHOST
And he eventually puts the Jews in Florence into a ghetto.
Yehuda GebererHOST
In 1571, the Jews of Florence, and to a certain extent Jews all over Tuscany, with the exception of Livorno and Pisa, which are, especially Pisa, not that far from Florence.
Yehuda GebererHOST
Livorno also not that far.
Yehuda GebererHOST
So what happens then? Why is this change of the Medici's position towards the Jews? What happened? What changed? And this is where it gets interesting.
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