Today was hilarious and painful. It is Matt’s birthday and he wanted to go to Lucca. Ric was assigned to an excursion he signed up for so the remaining 5 of us decided to go. Now, Livorno is one of the worst ports in that the port itself is far away and they know it and therefore they don’t offer a free shuttle to the city…AND you can’t walk. The hard way to get somewhere is to take the 5euro shuttle to the 1euro bus to the train station. We knew this and planned to meet and all get a taxi to the train station. It had been done before with no problems.
Well, not on Matt’s birthday. None of the taxis would take us because they said they were all reserved for tours. So, we got in line for the shuttle…and got stuck behind the lady trying to buy tickets with US$. If you’re in another country…USE THEIR MONEY. America isn’t that much of a super power…and don’t be stupid. We were also stuck behind the people who didn’t understand that the shuttle was pretty much their only option, and didn’t understand that the entire line of people was waiting for them. We were ALSO stuck behind the guy trying to sell back 4 tickets. The main dilemma for us was that we were trying to make a 10:00am train and if we missed it we would have to wait a while for the next one. We didn’t make it.
Once we got off the shuttle and bought bus tickets we realized the bus was taking forever. We finally found a taxi to the train station and had a 20 minute wait until the train to Pisa (where we would have to transfer to the train to Lucca).
When we got to Pisa around 11:10 we checked the schedule. Next train to Lucca…12:30. Ugh. This DID allow us to walk around Pisa and we went back to the park where I climbed the pole.
We eventually made it to Lucca and had a nice walk around. Oh, I forgot to mention that on the shuttle one group asked Deanna (because she is easiest to recognize from our show) how to get from the shuttle to the train and she told them where to buy bus tickets. That started a wave of other people asking her questions to the point of when she was buying bus tickets two ladies said they were just going to go with Deanna where she went so they wouldn’t get lost. That didn’t happen.
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