We detoured a bit today and left Venice for Ravenna to the SW. Three hour train ride with one change, which was only annoying for the last 45min of the ride back. A few snaps I took: Space Invader Rebel Scum have invaded Ravenna! (This showed up a few times around town, as did “No…
Category: Switzerland/Italy 2017
And one more thing
Many restrooms in train stations in Italy are pay toilets—you pay 1 euro or so for access. (One in Mexico I went to did it one better: access was free but you paid a few pesos for a handful of toilet paper!) The station in Ravenna was no different. However, it had been built with…
Train life
On the way back from Ravenna and there are two things happening on this train car.
Thoughts on Venice
Note that I didn’t specify in the title that the thoughts were any good.
Venice day 1
Our apartment appears to be across from some sort of regatta training facility as we’ve been watching a series of rowers set off in ones and twos from the dock our apartment looks over, who loop around the lagoon for a bit, then return. Some of them are serious modern racing boats, low and sleek,…
Good morning
Sunrise over the lagoon in Venice, from our apartment.
Adventure on the train
We reserved tickets for the train to Venice, which was good because it was packed. We found our seats, one already occupied by an Italian woman. The woman next to her swore that we were car 15, not car 6, so we went back along the train and found a conductor in the restaurant car,…
Switzerland isn’t what I expected
I knew in the abstract that Switzerland was composed of over a dozen (turns out it’s 26) cantons, and that different parts of the country were and are greatly influenced by their neighboring sovereign states. What I didn’t expect was how drastically different the country feels, depending on where you are. Our first stay was…
Puppers!
Today was a day trip to Martigny, to visit a very special museum.
Just posting…
…to say that we are currently beneath an Alp, in the Lötschberg-Basistunnel, which has 14K and change of track through it at the moment and has 4G.