Sunday evening I returned from Japan, I started in the morning from Narita.
Socket the shuttle of the hotel, we arrived at the airport quite easily despite the traffic. An attendant, with white gloves, when the bus stops fairly close to the luggage carts so we can load them easily helped by driver `declined to give us your bags from the boot.
In the airport, at check-in, we ordered a row, a kind of JAL officer tells us that, since my old-style Italian passport, we can not use the automated terminal but we will go over the counter. Not bad line up is fast and we arrive at the counter for check-in.
Turns the ritual formalities we head for the boarding gate, a policeman asks me politely to show passports and ticket, step by metal detector without problems and are ready for the boarding, which takes place in an efficient and orderly.
12 hours and 40 minutes after take-off finally arriving to Fiumicino Airport Leonardo da Vinci. We are in Italy!
the customs control while my wife, being Japanese, is the line between extracominitari, I face the Schengen row. It is my turn and with a "Good evening," I extend my passport all `public safety officer ... the only answer I get a sort of grunt.
I think it will be 'too tired, after all is night, and may be that, with the chronic shortage of staff, stara `round in the morning. Examined her face in disgust every page of my passport, but no throws me a word with a flick of the hand. How strange the end I said good evening only, not Vaffa @ *** him. Look
my wife and we go to retrieve their luggage. We get overtaken by various groups of tourists in baggage claim. To our surprise we see that there are still several rows of trucks waiting for us. I approach and I understand why `! If I come from Japan or another country with a 'Who the f ** k me or by a `euro currency to unblock the shopping cart?
Recover your bags, I feel lucky! At the end came too, are not "falls somewhere" and appear intact. The transition from customs control seems to be a rush to go to a concert. We are literally carried by a flood of people and suitcases. `So we are in the public part of the airport.
to go home by taxi is too expensive and decided to go to catch the train.
The train station is down a flight of stairs, along a tunnel and up a `other flight of stairs.
on the escalator a sign informs us that we can not bring the luggage, so we pick a lift ... that is broken! At this point we decide to give a damn about signs and use the escalators for the bags! I
the ticket and pay with 50 euro, and the ticket lady looks at me as if to say "but nun cellai hurry up"? I tell him to apologize for "Sa!, Coming now from Japan and I only have two pieces of 50 € "The looks at me and gives me enough of the rest.
the train is announced!
First ticket validation machine, broken, broken machine second, third machine jammed; fourth and last machine works! One in four, only 75% does not work the rest is ok!
We get on the train and off we go. A recorded voice reminds us that travel without a ticket does not go well and that the FS people on the train will make `controls. Then he says in English, but I do not think he talked about tickets.
A display informs us that we are on a "train high attendance," I wonder ... Anyway, that means we look for a place to settle the cases, but there is `no. Seats must be done in three steps or three steps up or down depending on the place you choose, or you can go upstairs and enjoy the view ... Yes, but the cases where c @ ** or go?
`I am altering and I get a" Vorea know who is the `idiot who decided to put this kind of train between the airport and the city. How did he not think that there are also cases from bring? " I leave the bags in the entrance hall and sit near them.
Next to us a family, mother, father and daughter are talking about, is the daughter was in Berlin with the school and excitedly tells the journey ... I look at them and the lady tells her husband "is right where you can put your bags in a train like this? "The husband with a suitcase resting between the front seat and her legs mentions justification" Yes, but these are commuter train ... then they decided to extend it until at the airport ... "Then
taken as a sense of guilt, he says:" However taking the eye of the suitcases. "I do not understand there is` just a guy who has a bag and two backpacks, a military man who looks back from leave. Already I imagine that my mother in one of the backpacks has tried to put him something to eat and has filled all `unlikely:) We're going to get
, Roma Ostiense! are opened door and a guy has just released the boy to request information. As the train enters a lightning someone grabs the backpack boy and runs away. He shouts "Freeze" and runs after him, I go behind him to chase the thief, not expecting such a reaction is rapidly abandons the backpack.
recovered the backpack, we come back and I realize I have been the only `co * lio * and is released to give a hand to the boy ... I hear a little voice that says "Welcome to Italy!"
I sit on the cases and I understand that means "to train high-use" ... BUT ARE THIEVES!
