Geo: 43.6158, 13.5189DISASTER AVERTED3 - the one where you don't forfeit your ticketthe boat from greece is due to arrive at 10:30 so you book your train ticketto Florence departing Ancona at 12:30...pleeeeeeenty of time, right? exceptthe boat doesn't dock until 12:35!at the train station I handed over my confirmation "Si, ciao", pointed tothe departure time then to my watch "No"...he hummphs, he looks at me a fewtimes...I smile, while holding my credit card expecting to pay for anotherticket...he prints a ticket departing at 14:10, gives it to me and tells meto go to platform 4...that's it, no payment requiredcelebration time: across the road is a pizza place where I had my firstauthentic italian pizza, Diabla (but it wasn't very spicy) and now I'm travelling north through the italian countryside to Bolognawhere I will cha
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