Venice
19 hours in Italian time is actually somewhere closer to 21. That’s how long my train took to get from Palermo to Venice. I have to say, though, it wasn’t all that bad.
I left Palermo around 4PM on Thursday and arrived in Venice around 1PM on Friday. I somehow managed to snag an entire cabin to myself with bunk beds for the overnight journey. It was a little weird being completely on my own on a train I’d never ridden before because I wasn’t able to pick up clues from the people around me about when to get off, how to get the door to lock but be openable from the outside (something that annoyed the conductor a bit) and things like that. Ah well, I just made it up as I went along.
The one part that through me for a loop, though, was when they loaded the train onto a ferry to get from Sicily to the mainland. I’d read about this type of transport in a travel guide somewhere but I wasn’t entirely sure if I was supposed to stay in my car, go out and into the boat or what. That part of the trip was pretty long as I hoped that I was in the right place at the right time and wouldn’t be shipped off somewhere else because I didn’t change trains on the ferry or something.
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