Journal

The next morning we could at least use the hostel's luggage storage. We went to a fuel-station shop for coffee and Bockwurst, then continued to Lidl and Aldi for some final German shopping: chocolates, Schnittlauch, [...]

The alarm went off at 06:15. Hugo somehow did not cough during the night, so that was at least good. We took a quick bite of the pizza that had not fitted into the two [...]

Hugo had another work morning while Caro went for a walk and did some shopping. She found a local market selling clothes for €1 and €2, then bought a supermarket lasagne for a quick lunch [...]

The alarm went off at 07:00. Hugo had a restless night, but we had already booked the tickets, so we were going. We had coffee and left for Bologna Centrale at 08:00. A 20-minute wait [...]

Even though we only had three days left in Italy and still had lots of plans, we decided to take it easy. We stayed in bed to give our bodies a better chance of recovering, [...]

Hugo woke up with a sore throat. Our train was only scheduled for 14:45. We checked out at 10:00 and thought we could sit in the dining area for a while, but the staff told [...]

We started the morning the same way as the day before, taking the same metro route back to the Colosseum. This time we entered the Roman Forum and used the Rick Steves audio guide. [...]

We got up, got dressed and headed in the direction of the station. On the way we stopped at a local coffee shop for a quick breakfast: two cappuccinos at €2 each and two cream [...]

We left our accommodation at 10:00 and headed to Centrale station. On the way we bought a potato crocchè and a frittatina di pasta. At the station our platform number wasn't showing yet, so we [...]