Published: July 25th 2010July 25th 2010
train Seracuse-Bologna
At Messina the train has to cross by ferry
As in UK criminal rate will drop considerably by this action for within short time you need so many good guys to watch and check out the videos that there will be less bad guys automaticcally.
Arrived yesterday with an delay of 6 hours in Rimini. Starting my travel in Catania with 10 minutes delay and building up after Messina with hours in the middle of nowhere. My scheduled arrival in Rimini was 9.30 am and I arrived 15.35 pm.
In Messina the train was loaded on the ferry. Left and right on the underdeck 4 waggons. Took some time but in the end it works.
Met in the train a Canadian-Italian Giovanmni with his son Joshua after their family visit in southern Italy on their way back to Canada and later an Italian guy entered the couchette compartment on his way to Reykjavic as a singer. Advised him not to open a high interest saving account over there.
The beaches at Rimini , over 100 numbered beaches there
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All Italy full of this sign
Had dinner yesterday in restaurant Il Giardino. Kind of garden restaurant more or less hidden in the middle of the old city of Rimini. For good restaurants I always look for busy ones with lots ( say 80%) of locals. Mostly they are really good.
There were over 100 clients in the garden divided over 1 big table of 20 and the rest 4 or 2 people per table and there were only two waiters. Even with only two waiters who were actually running in the garden everything went rather smoothly.
Striking in Italy is that a lot of information at the stations but also the numbers in elevators are also in braille.Never seen in any other country this kind of service for blind people.
In my previous life I worked for a more or less big company. Since about 6years travelling is one of the things I try to do as much as possible.
Every year I try to make at least one big trip by train. I did already the Orient expres route in normal trains, all the trains in Australia.
Around Scandinavia and last year around UK.
In 2009 I made a trip from Faro till Singapore by train and the only country I had to take a bus was Cambodia
In 2010 I travelled from southern Spain to France, Italy and the islands in the Mediterranean.On my way by train to Damascus I returned home from Beograd... full info
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Hi Bert, That's fun I always look where are many locals and , in my opinion, that works indeed. Cees
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