number6 wrote in
news:1188604640.979219.104070@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com:
> On Aug 31, 6:31 pm, "Diana Ball" wrote:
>
>>
>> The EXCEPTION to the general rule about buying a ticket on the spot
>> and grabbing an open seat for the Rome-Civ (or vice versa) trip is
>> travel on Eurostar/similar high-speed service, which is available on
>> that route to support through service to/from Civ in connection with
>> longer rail journeys. Tickets may be more expensive, seat
>> reservations (for an additional fee) may be required and, generally,
>> the process involves more rigmarole than a cruiser making the short
>> hop needs to undertake. Number 6, I gather this is what you did
>> because you were traveling on a comprehensive rail itinerary that
>> began/ended elsewhere? Alternatively, I guess you could've been
>> traveling 1st class, although I don't even recall 1st class cars
>> attached to that train.
>>
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> No we just bought a ticket using one of the machines in the
> station ...They had a choice to pick a seat or not pick a seat ...only
> like $5 Euro ... not knowing we checked the pick a seat option ...They
> were sticklers on that also ... there was a school outing returning on
> the same rail car ... and we exchanged seats so a lady could sit next
> to her kid ... The conductor got very agitated ... my Italian is
> limited to menu choices and sayng please and thank you ... but the
> lady said ... don't worry we'll handle him ... seems they had others
> exchange seats also ... and the nitpicking bureaucratic conductor was
> going crazy at the deviation from normality ... and the ladies were
> well being ladies :-) ... I loved it ... more real Italy one gets by
> taking the train ...
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You should have seen how the Cxech ladies worked things out when one kept
shutting the door to our compartment on a hot day. It was actually nice not
to be a part of the discussion, although we did appreciate their efforts.
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