Missed Trains and Sticker Book fun

So, we've reached the final country in this years tour ITALY.

We left behind the beautiful country of Croatia on a sunny Tuesday evening and headed by boat to Ancona. We were 1 member short as well - John had returned to Britain with his pride in tact after managing to stay clear of the nights in bed this year.

 The boat was fairy comfortable and spotting that we could buy Jagermister on board for 15euros a litre we got settled into a game of sticker-book. Its lost none of its magic i can tell you - despite me having to do the most shots - 15! We even made a new friend on board - the waiter was a big collector and he was delighted when we game him a couple of our doubles - once again world cup stickers uniting nations.

We arrived in Ancona at 10pm and headed for our hostel which looked more like a hostel - rubbish! Anyway as planned we got up to head to Rome on the morning train. We stood a platform 2 waiting for the train. 15mins after it was supposed to leave we got worried - then discovered there were two platform No.2s - HOW RUBBISH!!. We had to stay in Ancona until 3.30 in the afternoon - not happy as there was nothing going on and dispute being on the coast the info lady said there was no beach. So we spent the day walking around Ancona - very bored. As we got on the train we saw out the window that 5 mins outside Ancona there was 5 miles of beautiful beaches with bars, volleyball and sun loungers - not happy. Ancona is unlikely to be included on another JTs.

So we've arrived in Rome. Certainly a culture shock from the small cities we've been to so far.

G Budd Will be bad to report on Rome asap as soon as he gets himself out of all the churches now that hes flirting with Catholicism.

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