Venice

On Thursday we left Florence and headed for Venice. When we got to the train station the tickets were sold out for the train we wanted. That meant we had to wait there for two hours. That was a disappointment. We didn't want to sit in the train station for two hours waiting for a train so we just hopped on the sold out train. We crouched in the back near the luggage for a while. I felt a bit anxious as I wondered what kind of a penalty the Italian government has for foreigners who steal away on their trains. Jim told me to just stay quiet. When the conductor came to us and asked us for our tickets, Jim handed them to him. The conductor said, "You're on the wrong train". I looked at Jim. He looked at the conductor and said, "Oh, so that's why someone is in our seats". The conductor smiled, charged us ten dollars, and that was that. We arrived in Venice at 4 p.m.