Being the train snobs that we now are we decided we would travel first class from Rome, an extra 30 Euro but at least a guarantee of a seat.
It is just a shame the same couldn't be said about the airconditioning which wasn't working, but only in our carriage, it was fixed about half way through, and thank goodness because it was getting quite warm.
We arrived at the train station only to find no escalators, only stairs both up and down. 20 Kilos of luggage each, not really suitable for cruising folk. Luckily for us there was a taxi waiting which took us to our hotel.
Sandy likes to keep abreast of the local news!
Hotel Traghetto was clean and friendly, all you need for 1 night. We went for a walk around and grabbed some tea, lucky Sandy got some cardboard in hers, the guy assured her it was pancetta.....yeah right, maybe it was cardboardnara instead of carbonara???
It was after this when we had to don our superhero costumes and rescue our lost police friends who had been wandering around deepest darkest Civitavecchia for hours ( an hour at least). I am sure our nominations for a bravery award will be forthcoming. Our other cruise guests arrived at about 11.00 so after a quick catch up it was bedtime.
Wednesday cruise day, yeehah!! We boarded at about 11am, so had a full day on the boat, not as big as the last one but a bit more luxurious. We checked out our bat cave which was larger than we recalled, so we were happy! Today was about getting ourselves aquainted... Although I still have no idea if I am at the front or the back of the ship, but I should have my bearings by day 12. We left Rome at about 5 pm to arrive in Salerno by morning.
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