So daily life in the bus..Today we leave Venice for Rome...
7:45 am
Check in with guide and reserve seat.. The busses have power sockets in the middle only so to charge iPod and laptop you need to get in early and a seat near by. The 8am starts arnt ideal!!
8:00am
Bus departs for the days trip. Usually quite long days, 7- 10 hours some up to 14-16 hours. But due to E.U law they have regular breaks every 2-2.5hrs. So it's something to eat and pee then repeat again a few times.
9:33am
There are two buses on our route today so it's luxury as with spare seats. We chose the non express bus cos it's a sneaky way to see more of the country for free. Especially with the stops you can have a quick walk around 3 more city's that you would have and all for free(relatively speaking).
Driving along the plains away from Venice, hundreds fields of crops and orchards, old 2 story tile roofed Italian houses painted in typical pastel tones. Some houses are now abandoned and quietly falling down without too much fuss. I want to buy them and live there. We pass a few factories and see grand castles in the distance and a few close to the road.
10:22
We stop at our first autogrill, an italian intsution steps above the BP connect. No pies but enough paninis filled with procuito and mozerlla to feed the hundreds of Italians stopping for their caffe!! After elbowing our way thru the italians we ordered in italian!! Boom! It was delicious.
A few more service stops and we are making our way into Rome.
12:00
After another autogrill, they chuck a movie up on the tv on the bus..Gladiator, to continue the Roman Theme! It's pretty sweet, with two screens on the bus and a cool system like airplanes for your headphones with music and the movie it's pretty cool. And they play flight of the Concords!
5:15
Very exciting to think we are gonna be in one of the oldest city's in the world! Our guide John-the american gives us the low down on Rome and the history surrounding the roman empire etc.
As you com into each city they give you some history, and so things to do an offer you some suggestions and excursions to do in each of the city's. In Rome we have chosen to do two walking tours, as we are only there for 2 days and there is a alot to see.
5:30
We arrive at Camping Roma our BusAbout accommodation. The thing about Busabout is that they have investigated the decent hostels around Europe and stop right in front of one in each city. You can choose to stay wherever you like, but usually the one they choose has a good rating and you get dropped off right in front of the door so it makes it alot easier. And it's a great way to make friends with other people from the bus!
And that's a day one the Blue Lady!
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