Lost & Found
27th July 2006We left Split on the overnight ferry and arrived in Ancona the following morning after a reasonable night’s sleep on a bench on the deck. Miraculously there was a direct train from Ancona, on the east coast of Italy, to Orte, a not-very-big town on the west coast. We had a four hour wait in the station yet very nearly missed our train due to the ingenious platform numbering system: there are two of every platform. To cut a long story short, (there’s a first time for everything!) we were waiting on platform 3 on one side of the station whereas our train was at platform 3 ovest on the other side of the station. Apparently ovest means ‘west’ which doesn’t make much sense since there isn’t any other direction you can go by train from Ancona. So anyway we made it to Orte where we were met by a lovely young lady who simply said “Sonica? This way!” and guided us to a waiting coach. Neat.
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