Travelling
May. 5th, 2016 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dormouse1953I took the train from Milan to Florence yesterday.
Milan Central Station (which doesn't seem very central, but was close to my hotel) is an impressive building, all white marble with statues on the roof. Judging by the date inscribed on it (and Wikipedia agrees), its final form was a product of the Mussolini era, and looks exactly like what an ancient Roman railway station would have looked like.
When I got on the train and deposited my case in the luggage compartment at the end of the carriage, I then straightened up and immediately hit my head on a projecting bit of the luggage rack - very painful.
Florence was very hot and crowded when I got there. I wheeled my case through the narrow streets to my hotel and discovered that the entrance to the hotel led to two flights of stairs to get to reception. I struggled up the steps and was nearly at the top when the receptionist heard me and came and gave me a hand. He told me that the new lift to the ground floor should be operating next month.
Milan Central Station (which doesn't seem very central, but was close to my hotel) is an impressive building, all white marble with statues on the roof. Judging by the date inscribed on it (and Wikipedia agrees), its final form was a product of the Mussolini era, and looks exactly like what an ancient Roman railway station would have looked like.
When I got on the train and deposited my case in the luggage compartment at the end of the carriage, I then straightened up and immediately hit my head on a projecting bit of the luggage rack - very painful.
Florence was very hot and crowded when I got there. I wheeled my case through the narrow streets to my hotel and discovered that the entrance to the hotel led to two flights of stairs to get to reception. I struggled up the steps and was nearly at the top when the receptionist heard me and came and gave me a hand. He told me that the new lift to the ground floor should be operating next month.
