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On A Boat To Greece

ITALY | Sunday, 5 December 2010 | Views [402]

Today was our final day in Italy because we had to get to Greece. We got up at 7 am in order to get to Brindisi. We stayed overnight previously two nights in Pompeii. It was about 5 hours of travelling to get to Brindisi varying from train to bus. We hopped aboard a train at 8 and stayed on it until our next stop. We didn't know where or when the next train left from the train station on our second stop but we had an idea. The information they gave us on the internet was false however so we missed our second train and were forced to wait two hours to catch a bus to the next train station so we wouldn't miss two trains. The bus only had a few people on it so i had my own two seats and slept, just as I had done on the train. We did manage to make the third train and got to Brindisi with time to spare. We bought our tickets and the person working at the ticket booth told us it was a 500m walk to the ferry. We were mislead again, but we needed to make this ferry so we asked a taxi driver how far it was. It turns out that the ferry was really five kilometres way, so lucky we asked or we would've missed the ferry. We hitched a taxi ride over and boarded. The ferry was 13 hours long and boring. Like the last ferry, we got sleeping births. I cannot sleep on boats so I was up until four. I finally fell asleep, but I had a terrible sleep. 

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