With two weeks of travel under our belts, Susan and I breezed out of Florence with the intention of taking in Venice for a couple hours, followed by a leisurely train ride to Ljubljana, Slovenia, where our hostel was pre-booked. We felt totally capable, confident and well-planned. However, upon arrival in Venice, we were told that there was no train to Ljubljana from Venice. At all. This gave us rule #1 for our forthcoming travel advice booklet: never trust the train schedules you find in your travel agency, at another city's train station, or online. We were advised by the nice ticket lady to take a train to Trieste, on the border of Italy and Slovenia, because there was "usually" a bus to Ljubljana from there. She seemed quite bored by our distress so we decided
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