One would think that traveling on the train though Europe would be exciting and quite pleasant since we Americans always hear about how easy it is. We have survived to tell you, “Never go to the Rome terminal”.
We were very excited to take a train and see the countryside. What we didn’t know was that our travel agent booked us in First class… yeah… but on the economy train line. How lovely it was to walk into the terminal and immediately hold tight to all of our belongings. It was like we had walked into the worst part of Baltimore in the middle of the night or for the Philly locals, it makes the R5 train look like the Ritz of trains. We couldn’t understand any of the signs and were getting hungry so Matt thought it would be wise to feed Jeni… She’s much happier with a full belly…. So Matt had Jeni stand outside of McDonalds with ALL of the bags while he waited in line to buy food. During this time, Jeni panicked and guarded everything. Once Matt arrived, Jeni relaxed and they both started to eat. Within 3 minutes, a man tried to pick pocket Matt (he didn’t even noticed until Jeni said something) and then we had a Gypsy beg for food, flash her bra, and hand me her baby…. I guess she wanted to swap her baby for my nine-piece nugget… Then after saying no repeatedly she thought she would try to grab our bag. (more…)