10.00am flight with BA to Gatwick and after a few hours in a very comfortable BA lounge fly on to Venice, arriving in time to take a bus into Venice Mestre railway station and catch the 18.23 train to Trieste.
Flat,uninspiring country as we head east from Venice but as we approach Trieste the landscape changes markedly with glimpses of snow-covered mountains near Cortino d'Ampezzo and a high escarpment to the north of the railway line.
Take a taxi to our hotel, House 5 in Via Giulia, and we are taken to the cleaners by our charisma-minus taxidriver who must be distantly related to Silvio Berlosconi. Both of us too tired and/or dumb to register that he charged us 11 euros when the meter showed 6!
Hotel in a very pleasant part of Trieste and spacious rooms very well appointed.
Go to bed happy in the knowledge that Man United have lost to Arsenal so will have something interesting to say to Smithy when he and Cath arrive the next day.
Other momentous news- Osama bin Laden has supposedly been killed in Pakistan by USA team and his body has been buried at sea. Will reserve our judgement until we are drip-fed more info by the USA.
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