On the road again

We got to the platform and jumped on the train even though there was no indication of where it was going. Ann tried to find out with a "Parla Inglese?" which was ignored completely by the first person she approached and greeted with a scowl by the second. Eventually, after much gesticulation, she got a "si" response, which seemed like a good sign. We did arrive at the port, and someone turned up with the key to our car, which we found was parked right outside the railway station.


We were very pleased to see it, loaded our bags into it, and after a couple of false starts found our way onto the motorway.

We had booked a hotel at Lerici, the lovely wee town that we found on our way south. By now it was almost 8, the time we had said we would arrive, and we still had a 3 hour drive. Ann called the hotel to let them know we were going to be late and found they didn't have a booking! So we asked the GPS to find us a hotel about an hour further on. It took us off the motorway, down a dead end street. We tried several other streets and eventually ended up at a nightclub where the GPS said there were three hotels but not a hotel in sight! We gave up, got back on the motorway and found one of the hotels the GPS had said we were at about 10km down the road. It was clean and comfortable, and very cheap. Next day we drove on to Lerici and got a cheaper room rate than they had quoted on the email.