By train from Vienna
Aug 1 9:30 track 8, car 27 to Innsbrook, seats 65 and 66
13:54 track5 to Brenner
15:08 R2213 to Verona
18:52 car 2, seats 16D and 15D
Arrive Florence 20:25
Well, that was the plan!
Arrived at Main Station, coffee in. OBB lounge and learned our first train of the day was 30 minutes late because of an international delay.
Oh well, missed our connection in Innsbruck so the next train to Brenner ,connected in Bozen where we managed to get the same train that we had been booked on from Veron,,good deal, longer time in our first class than on the local system. Spoiled heh!
Beautiful country through the foothills of the Alps to Innsbruck, then through the mountains, lots of tunnels to Brennen then the mountains rose and what a feast for the eyes, a very steep valley for most of the way to Bozen, vineyards straight up from the river with beautiful villages on the top, with the church spire being the prominent landmark in each one. Welcome to Italia!!
Great memories of our week in Villach, hiking each day to a different alm for the cheese of the day, and also remembering my dad and his stories of milking cows with Heidi! Oh, the Alps!
One very very long tunnel just before Bozen.
Amazing! The terraced vineyards and apple orchards, labour intensive beauty for others to see.
Passed through Trento, Romereto, Verona, Bologna, then got off at Campo de Fierenza, better known as Florence to us, all very green with mountain backdrops.
Complimentary wine and rosemary crackers in this first class section. Yum. There ate only eight people in the whole coach.
More memories flooded as we entered Verona, camping in our little tent in a working vineyard castle overlooking the old city with over 200 steps down to the city, the opera Nabuuco , which began at dark in the open air theatre, finished at one and everyone went out for dinner. Claudia and Georg were wonderful tour guides that year as we had traveled together from Nassfeld, Austria to Venice, Lago Como and Verona, tenting along the way and sampling the local fare in fine dining.
From Verona towards Bologns, flat farming land, hay, oregano, cabbage, sourgum, corn, apple orchards but the turned soil is clumpy clay, how does anything grow in that?
After Bologna, we entered a very very long tunnel. I thought we were back in the Chunnel! Don't know how long it is but this high speed train ia a whizzing through!
Taxi to our AirBnB at 10 pm sitting on rooftop patio. Lovely.
Florentine Roof Garden. Hotels.com con # 130497546111
VialeG Milton71 Florence50129 IT
390-550-881-468.
Phoned Flavio on Saturday to inform him of late check-in. Reg check-in is 2-4,
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