The smartest thing I did today was take a cab back from the station. The cost of 4.59 Euro was well spent considering the heat, the crowds, my luggage, and all that I had been through already.
Lesson to the Italian traveller: it should not take 6 hours to travel 100 km by train. It should take 3 hours, and you should enforce this by simply asking people if you're on the right train, especially if you're actually proficient in Italian and pride yourself on being confident to the point of shamelessness. Don't get off the train at a random stop to check and then end up waiting 2 hours for the next train, only to find that everything is so "in ritardo" that it's more efficient to take another train back in the other direction to get on the same train, only to find out that you were on the right train all along and never should have gotten off. At that point, it's clear that the sentence, "Questo va a Firenze?" would have saved you at least 4 hours today.
Podunk town I ended up in: Laterina
How many people appeared in Laterina in the 2.5 hours I was there: 4
How many of those people were shady Middle Easterners asking me for money: 2
How many minutes the train to Arezzo was late: 140
How much the ticket from Assisi to Firenze cost: 8.99 Euro
How much the ticket from Laterina to Arezzo cost: 2.00 Euro
How much time the trip should take: 3 hours
How much time the trip did take: 6 hours
How many Asian girls were on any of the trains I rode today, including myself: 1
I hope everybody had a good weekend.
posted by Lucy Sloan @ 6:54 AM
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