After a gorgeous brekky in Rome we walked a block to Termini and bought our tickets to paradise. We had been standing there for about 15 minutes when we realised at the last minute that we were looking at the wrong train information which meant we had to be at another platform in record time. We then couldn't validate the tickets in the validation machine so made the executive decision to just jump the train. We trudged through 3 or 4 carriages before we realised that we should have stayed in carriage 1. Then Charles got slugged 14 Euro for 2 measly drinks by one of those dodgy drink pedlars. The couple sitting next to us decided to complain on our behalf to the conductor, but what could he do? Anyway we didn't lose our sense
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