Train Tickets
We would have waited in line for train tickets, but we saw an automated vending machine for tickets. We got in the very short line for that, but found we were standing behind a gaggle of Italian women...
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Roma
We took turns snoozing on a slow, cheap train through magnificent scenery. We made it into Rome in the afternoon, and holed up at the Pensione Esther near the station, where we stayed for 52€ per night...
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Pizza Forum
There was a big line in front of the Colosseum to purchase tickets for admission to the Colosseum and Palatine. We walked over to Palatine, where there was no line, and purchased our tickets. Palatine...
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Pizza Pizza Forum Via San Giovanni in Laterano 34-38 (Telephone 06 700 25 15) Variety of tasty, authentic Napoletian pizzas near the Colloseum. Great service and value. Internet Yoon’s Park Via G....
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Naples, Pizza, Pompeii
[640x400] [800x600] [Full Size] White columns stacked in front of what was once some important public building. [640x400] [800x600] [Full Size] Vivid colors on this ancient wall mural greet the modern...
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Capri, and the Blue Grotto
[640x400] [800x600] [Full Size] Ancient steps that we walked up, carved in to the cliff on Capri. We took a ferry over to the island of Capri. Janet wanted to see the famous Blue Grotto, which is a...
View ArticleVenicia Via Soppresso
As we left the hotel, the lady warned Janet that we might not make it to Venice, because the trains might be on strike today. The train station was pretty dead, and we saw young folks outside, one...
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Padova
[640x400] [800x600] [Full Size] Colorful fall scenery seen while walking across the river in Padova. All the better one and two-star hotels were full. We stumbled on a $150 room in a four-star hotel,...
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Kicked out of Padova hostel for college group. On to Venicia, finding a room, visiting Murano. Herded in to lame glass-blowing demonstrations. Saw neat artistic glassworks. Slept next to German father...
View ArticleOn to Milan
Head for Milan. Barely missed desired IR, but that’s okay, because we had to hit Padova anyway because I’d left my camera battery charger at the hostel there. Regional to Verona, IR to Milano. One-Star...
View ArticleMilano to Trieste
We lingered in bed the next morning, our last morning together. I saw Janet off on her bus to Malpensa from the train station, where I was left with a desire to use the WC, which the station had, for a...
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Castles, Gardens, Buses and Trains. (Oh my!)
The garden at Maximilian’s Castle. After breakfast this morning, I strode with an Italian and a German pre-school teacher over to Maximilian’s Castle, built on the Adriatic coast, a few meters from...
View ArticleTrieste Vu
Between Trieste and Venicia, nobody ever asked me for a ticket. We arrived at Venicia somewhere around 10PM, and I was hungry – I grabbed some McDonalds. As I stumbled through ordering a Big Mac with...
View ArticleA Small Victory
It was too late to arrange for a couchette or anything at Venicia. I grabbed a first-class compartment and reclined the seats together. In an Italian compartment, there are two rows of three seats each...
View ArticleItinerary
While the night train was bound for Nice, with a comfortable 0900 arrival, the itinerary I had been given by the Slovenian information guy, who seemed to me only slightly bent, had me change trains at...
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