Friday, 28 Venice to Cornlgia

Woke up before our alarm ,walked to the Vaporetto (water taxi). Interesting route back to the train station. Could see the early traffic. A boat at the train station was full of cases of water and pop. A person forgets everything must come in by boat. Because it was early,we did not get breakfast.  So we arrived at the station, but evidently the Italians have small coffees and pastries for breakfast? That is all we could find. Grabbed a premodern sandwich at the first stop. Next stop we only had minutes.

Fairly flat pasture like farm ground.

ok the non tourist taxi, we saw more of the day to day stuff. Like a small boat loaded with battled water and drinks. Evidently breakfast for these Italians is pastry and small capacitors. The man from Chilling had commented they kept giving him little cups, he was used to our large travel mugs to wake him up! Any way that was what we had at the train station for breakfast. Not that we had missed much by the way of the free breakfast at the small hotel. Yesterday it was hard rolls, thin sliced ham, and two kinds of cold cereal with warm milk. This train back to Milan, yes it is the third time we saw the train station, as Jerry pointed out. Probably the tour guys fault, oh wait we don't have one of those. Small problem when we sat down. The train seats are set up as sets of four, two facing one direction, two the other. A woman and a small child where already there. One in our seat. No problem we just sat across, and asked where they were from. Englan, and traveling home. Along comes another two women, one of which tells Jerry he has mad a mistake as we are in their seats. This of course upset Jerry, as we had been very careful. The cars are numbered, but the seats are exactly the same numbers. We had figured this out on the way to Venice. So he knew he was right. However the woman had assumed all four of us were together. The English woman across from us did not have her ticket, as it was with her husband. Finally the husband came along, and told her of his mistKe. Big pain to move seats on a now moving car with your luggage.  The next train from Milan to the coast, was set up with 6 seats in little rooms. Three couples with us. One from Australia, and one from Holland. All going somewhere along the coast. Switched to a local train, and 6stops later we were in Corniglia. Lots of times we have not seen conductors. Today on this last train we did. I felt sorry for the young gentleman standing near us at the car doors. He had not stamped his ticket in the machine. Long lecture. I jokes I could not get mine in the machine, ours was a full page  printed of the computer at home. Mind you the whole conversation was inItalian with the young  man, and with her hand gestures we knew what she was saying.
Took the shuttle bus up, way up to the town. Worthwhile $1.50!