24 Hour Travel Formula from Dubrovnik, Croatia to Rome, Italy
1. Take a day trip to Mjlet, Croatia, and rent bikes to ride uphill for what seems like a week in order to find the cash machine to go to the national park where you board a small boat to visit and swim at a monestary on an island within an island.
2. Leave Mjlet, Croatia on a ferri, watch sunset over the Adriatic Sea just after camera batteries die just as the sun explodes with magnificant colors between surrounding rocky mountains and cliffs. Take mental picture instead and call it good.
3. Arrive back in Dubrovnik, Croatia to board an all night ferri to Bari, Italy. Sleep on the floor of the ferri and mow down as much free food as possible for breakfast.
4. Wait 1.2 hours in sweaty customs office, where you are asked if you are Italian, or at least if your father was. Instead, represent the Finnish, or at least smile and thank them for not interrogating you.
5. Take bus number 20 to Bari, Italy train station.
6. Purchase ticket to Rome, Italy at the advice of a ticket dealer who assured us this way was faster. Board train.
7. Arrive 15 minutes late and miss connecting train to Rome.
8. Wait two hours in sweaty train station for next train with combination of guys from Spain and Argentina. Italian pizza redeems high cost of sweat by being delicious.
9. Arrive in different train station than intended.
10. Purchase ticket to new train station.
11. Board train to right train station.
12. Locate tourist map at correct train station, discover that Metro is closed for the night. Try not to be angry, you are now in Rome.
13. Successfully navigate streets of Rome at night to locate accomidations.
14. Take shower.
15. Post exhaustive and boring blog about journeys of the last 24 hours.
16. Sleep like baby.
17. Repeat in three days.
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4 comments:
OH cheeks,
sounds like you have had an amazing last few days bro. Sorry to hear of your challenging (and entertaining) saga. How has the language barrier been?
Not "boring"--interesting!
I "call it good."
that made me tired just reading about it. :)
language has not been an issue. just about everyone speaks some version of english, so the lazy one language americans get to take advantage of that...
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