Thursday
5:00 am Wake up (an early start to a long day)
6:20 Bus to Lublin train station (still VERY cold out, had our heavy coats, long underwear, hats, scarves, etc.)
7:03 Train to Warsaw (uneventful. Had the cabin to ourselves)
9:45 Taxi to the Fredrick Chopina Airport
(Made the mistake of taking an “unmarked” cab and got charged an outrageous amount!)
1:00 Plane to Rome (Very different to hear Italian and English instead of Polish. Got to see some of the Italian alps during the flight!)
3:25 Arrive in Rome
4:07 Train from airport to center city (Delaney took great delight in snapping pictures out the window on our way into town. It was so nice to see green trees and grass and not snow. Temperature is about 55 F, seems quite balmy)
4:40 Arrive in center city station (Termini)
(This is the largest most confusing station I have ever set foot in. It is huge, winds around extensively with limited signage and long walkways, and hordes of people).
5:30 Metro to outer ring of the city toward our hotel (The metro system here rates pretty high on our public transportation scale. Clean, well marked, smooth, speedy.)
6:00 Exited metro system and started looking for our bus stop.
(It was already dark and my map did not clearly show where the bus stop was to get to our hotel. We inquired at a local bistro and the owner directed us down the street. We found a large bus stop with a kiosk. A bus employee directed us across the street to a smaller, almost unmarked stop. The bus arrived just about the same time we did. The driver thankfully told us which stop we needed to get off at. A walk down a dark narrow street brought us to our hotel at 7:15 pm. Rooms are nice and view over the city looks great.
You can see the dome of the Bascilica from our hotel balcony.
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