Our journey back home started well. We reversed our steps: train to Kiato; bus to Patras; taxi to the port; overnight ferry to Bari. This time, we were on the Superfast I, the twin sister of the vessel of the we’d taken on our outbound voyage, and we even had the same room, identical except for tiny things like the placement of a few electrical sockets. In Bari, the weather was nicer than it had been last time. We walked a different route past the castle and through the old town, stopped to pick up lunch for the journey, and caught our train to Bologna. The train made good progress as far as Foggia, where it paused. A landslip further up the Adriatic line half an hour earlier had blocked traffic (and would do so for a couple of days). This was the first misfortune. We were to be rerouted via Rome, skipping Pescara and Ancona but stopping at Bologna and Milan as intended. No problem; we were going to Bologna. But we didn’t leave Foggia, and although the display on the train and the…
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