Monday 1 October. Another day of travel – three trains and a luxury bus. We left Ljubljana about 9am and shared our train compartment with a young couple from Adelaide, who have been back-packing around Europe for the past three months. Then, at Villach, transferred to a posh double-decker bus for the three-hour trip to Venice. First class was downstairs with very comfortable reclining seats, a toilet and tea/coffee facilities. Our companions in adjacent seats were a family from Brisbane. This was a beautiful drive through the mountains along he Austrian-Italian border, with frequent waterfalls and white-water rivers adjacent to the roadway. Then another train to Bologna and a local train for the last hour and a bit to Ravenna, arriving here 6.30pm. Booked in to the Hotel Centrale Byron – apparently Byron stayed in Ravenna for a while – a lovely old hotel. Then out for a walk through the old town before stopping for a pizza and fettucine dinner at a nearby restaurant.
Tomorrow: explore Ravenna, with its UNESCO-listed churches and mausoleums and especially its mosaics dating back to the fifth century.
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