Tuesday, December 16, 2008

long night's journey into day

Okay, we are pretty exhausted so this has to be quick, but I wanted everyone to know that after literally over 24 hours of travel, including a cab ride at 3:45 in the morning mon to LAX, a 5 hour flight through the rainy US to washington dc followed by a 9 hour flight into Rome, followed by waiting on a platform for 40 minutes for the 55 minute late "express" train on which we had to stAnd the whole way to rome's train station, followed by a harrowing nightmare, the details of which I will spare you for now, of trying to figure out where the hell to get our railpass validated, giving up, almost missing our train to naples (thank goodness apparently ALL trains run late here) and convincing the conductor to validate it, then having to stand for the entire 70 minute (yes that's count 'em 34 stops) trian to Sorrento, and a walk to our hotel room... We are here. Oh yes, we had planned to go out to dinner, see some of the town tonight, you know, just after this little nap... But I think we are going to see sorrento bright and early tomorrow morning and until then sleep our way out of yesterday's madness in our truly lovely sorrento hotel room. Goodnight!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi! So glad that you made it safely! We're sorry you had such a rough ride getting to Sorrento, but we hope that you woke up to a beautiful Italian city! Have a great day! :) Asa, Michele & Lela