We had planned to take the train from Castellammare del Golfo to Palermo. We generally prefer travelling by train, even if getting to the train is sometimes more complicated than the actual journey. On Monday we checked the schedule and saw that there was a train at around 09:00 and then nothing again until 14:00. [...]
Monday began with coffee and some of the little filled croissants our host had left for us. Almost immediately afterwards, a message arrived saying that our boat trip had been cancelled. They offered to move us to the following day, which was not especially useful since we would be checking out. We never found out [...]
Our first full day in Sicily was a Sunday, and we started it very slowly. Breakfast was the four slices of pizza left over from the previous night. Being in Italy had its perks: the apartment came with a one-litre bottle of olive oil and a 500-millilitre bottle of balsamic vinegar, so we dipped the [...]
We woke up at our airport accommodation near Zagreb and immediately realised that we had absolutely nothing for breakfast. Eating at the airport would have been the obvious solution, but the food there looked both expensive and badly reviewed. Instead, we came up with a much better plan: take the 50-cent city bus to a [...]
