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, Lebkuchen, Haribo and everything else that seemed worth trying to fit into our bags. For lunch we found [...]
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 plastic containers we had been carrying around specifically for leftovers. We had to leave the apartment key inside the door, [...]
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 before we left. At 13:00 we walked to the station for the 20-minute train to Modena. We had originally wanted [...]
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 became a 40-minute wait because the train was late. Luckily, we had allowed 40 minutes in Rimini before the bus, [...]
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, hopefully do something on Sunday and Monday, and perhaps not still be quite so sick when it was time to [...]
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 us a large group was coming. We went back to the mall instead, where Hugo worked at the communal table [...]
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. It was a much better experience than the official Colosseum guide. The storytelling was better. Instead of just looking [...]
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 cornetti at €1.20 each. We took a metro full of people heading to work to Termini, then changed [...]
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 tried them. Both tasted so bad that we threw them away. Definitely yesterday's old stock. Caro looked after the bags [...]
We slept late. All our jam-packed days had finally caught up with us. We had coffee and a quick breakfast with what we had on hand, and Hugo started his workday. Caro washed a few socks and then set off on her own mini mission to the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli. The museum holds [...]
