FUN-travel: Venice to Rimini, Italy – End of Seabourn Cruise
October 20, 2013 by Susan Clarke
Day 30 – Tuesday, October 15 – End of Seabourn Cruise – Venice to Rimini, Italy – foggy & overcast – 62
What I LIKE
Split, Croatia
- 7:00 – my usual hot capp arrives
- 8:20 – walk out of room
- 8:40 – breakfast & sandwich to go
- 9:30 – walk off ship
- *sit in ship terminal to post & check email
- 11:00 – take public ferry to train station – only costs $14 for both
- they have ramps covering steps so easy to schlep bags
- only have 4 stops before St. Lucia train station
- 11:20 – arrive
- **11:30 – locate bag check next to Track 1
- 11:50 – pizza break – Pizzeria Vittoria – Trip Advisor sign
- no cover or service charge
- 1 each diavola & funghi w/drinks only $20 Euro
- more wandering the alleyways & narrow streets & dead ends
- 2:00 – head back to train station
- ***2:42 – board train – have reservations
- 2:57 – depart on time
- no changing trains
- 5:34 – arrive on time
- elevator @ very end of platform!
- TI – outside station
- +taxi to DuoMo $10 Euro
- 5:50 – arrive hotel – really modern – nice big room w/2 balconies – small but like the fresh air
Venice
Brindisi, Italy
- free & fast internet
- 8:15 – little hungry – Mattia @ front desk recommends Spazi – half block up and around corner
- Veggie salad w/tuna, tomatoes, onion & caprese (best ever!) homegrown tomatoes & divine buffalo
- mozzarella melt in your mouth – nice $30 Euro bottle of local wine (grown 15 miles away) 2008 San Valentino Terra di Covignana Sangiovese – total dinner cost $60 Euro & Bellisima!
- 9:55 – back to hotel for night night
Question to Ponder – How would you like to be the Fed Ex delivery person here? They carry packages on a large dolly/cart. Going up and down the steps proves to be quite challenging as the packages fall off. Then when they have a delivery they leave the cart in the middle of the alley/street and leave it. Made me wonder how many people steal packages off the unattended cart?
What I DON’T LIKE
- 6:30 wake up
- no answer for room service hot cappuccino
- 8:00 – supposed to be out of cabin
- *still have 25 unused expensive internet minutes!
- **costs $5 Euros per bag – 5 hr minimum & only need 3 hr
- ***required & costs additional $29 for 2 and plenty of seats
- starts spitting rain
- +no meter & not far (like 500 meters) & really worth about $5 Euro
Katakolon, Greece
FUN-fact – Conde Nast readers vote Florence as #1 favorite city every year. I’m convinced it’s because they can read the map and get where they want pretty easy. Venice is not as easy but you will never be lost very long if you have a map.