Blogs from Lombardy, Italy, Europe - page 92

So, I arrived by myself on Saturday morning around 8. I got really worried cause Charlotte didn't show and didn't show and by 10:30 I was pretty scared. I had all this luggage and didn't know what to do. It took me about an hour to figure out how to call her and then when I did, I couldn't get through. Finally, I called ry, and asked him to call her and told him I would call him back. Of course as soon as I heard his voice and he was being all nice, I burst into tears. Anyway, Charlotte slept through her alarm and her cell phone battery was dead so Ry managed to get her at her regular number. She came to get me around 12. The next day we had a meeting with ... read more

Day 14 - Friday 25th February A very pleasant night's sleep and up early for the adventure ahead. Breakfast was not too expensive for a hotel costing 600 Lira but in itself breakfast was 40% of a normal day's spend. Then disaster - we waited until 11am but no Porsche arrived - had the driver been forced to change his plans or was he just leading us on ! We had to pay for the hotel room at 2450 Lira (£1= 1550) and to add to injury, we were on the wrong side of Milan for the route to Florence. Oh well chin up - off we walk in the direction of the autostrade. The first lift in a very small Fiat helped us to the main road where we were picked up by another Fiat ... read more