Klass Hotel Ancona

... worried about our travel Visa running out before we were done&#8230;If anything I thought that Greece would be rushed after Italy, but it looks like things have reversed. <br><br>Well at least I have supper tonight and ½ day tomorrow (that is if Brian doesn&#8217;t make us get to the ferry terminal too early).<br><br>Ciao Bella Italy! I wish I could have got to know you better. Here&#8217;s to another return in times of warmer weather. <br><br>

... can turn to, pin hopes, dreams, tears and despair on. Fine. The Problem arises when people can no longer see. Due to being 'blinded' by their faith. <br>I have seen some churches here that most likely go back to the Stones Age, (yeah yeah I know maybe not that far) but upon entering some of these buildings, is like walking into a different world. A universe where to breath is either a blessing or a disturbance. I am ...

... overtakes you on bends and also crosses onto your side of the road going around the sharp bends on steep mountain roads.. including massive trucks. It was enough to keep anyone awake. We were heading for Elba but it seemed like a long drive. Tricked myself though but first aiming for Lake Tramiseno, then siena and then before we knew it we were at Piombino and about to board the ferry to Elba Island...<br>

... the pebble beachy bits to the pier. To be honest, it was hot not in the breeze and we could have happily hopped back on the bus half an hour earlier. <br> Back on the bus there was a 2 hour drive to Patras, I pulled out the 2nd of the Cassandra Clare books "City of Ashes" that I borrowed from Anita..thing were going well until the wonderful greek airconditioning started to leak from most of the vents of the whole bus, in dribs and drabs, some more ...

Off to the beach today, that is pretty much all there is to do in Ancona. Beautiful day though. 30min bus ride to get to the beach. The water was amazing, bright blue with white pebbles.<br><br>Got a little burnt! Everyone at the beach was so tanned!!!! even the babies!!!

... to hear lots of Greek around once more!<br><br> On board the ferry we received the balm of air-conditioning, and our afternoon and evening was spent eating - reading - playing games (Paul won everything...) - reading - eating - and watching a lively thunderstorm to the north. Finally, we retired to the clammy heat of the van rather late for us and - despite our grave doubts as to the feasibility of the plan - achieved our aim of sleep.<br> <br>

... Lots of truckers shipping good for main Europe. We got free dorms with our eurorail pass, but paid port taxes and fuel surcharge of 10 euros, cheaper than a room. Dorms were seperated into men and women, since it is not safde for women to be alone in the little 6 bed dorm cabins. After +23 hour trip arrived in Greece at 12:00. Way to long, but we made it. Oh, we saw on Greek TV some news about fire bombings somewhere ...

... but we had no choice but to risk it. Later that night when I went down the hall to shower, I found an elderly man with his pants around his ankles, ******** with the door open. I am not sure who screamed louder, but if there ever was a time for comic relief, it was then. We decided against getting text messages from my sister updating us with the score of the Gator game. We were exhausted, depressed, and in some serious need of sleep. Travel day #2 had finally and thankfully come to an end.

... and when the lady went to have a chat with him, he was not impressed. Instead of paying the fine, he chose to argue. For a while. There was probably about 30 minutes of that trip where a man and woman were yelling at each other. Loudly. Then other members of the crowd joined in. It was fabulous, we were witnessing an old fashioned italian argument. For all we knew they were talking about their favorite recipes. But it kept us entertained, and soon enough, there we were, Rome, the ancient city!

... noticed that there was nobody in the booth and the boom gate had no intention to open whatsoever. Naturally cars started banking up behind us and we had to do something. I got out of the car and started pressing all the buttons available at the gate. Pressing the green one should have resulted in a ticket being issued by the machine. Then you would pick up the ticket and the boom gate would open. Either the ticket didn ...