5 Cities, 4 Cafès, 3 Trains, 2 Buses, 1 Ferry

It doesn't sound like much of a day but it was actually quite enjoyable.

We started the day by waking up to realise the bus was leaving Ljubljana in 5 minutes. This meant a quick re-appraisal of the situation and I decided on catching a train to Sezàna near the Slovenian Italian border. This was despite not having any information about how to get between Sezàna and Trieste. In Sezàna, we met an Italian guy essentially doing the same journey as us who said there was a bus leaving in 45 minutes to Trieste. We had a coffee together in a cafè in city number 2.

In Trieste we walked around the city for a hour or two, had our lunch before deciding that since it was a nice sunny day, we should stop via Venice which we had visited 3 years earlier on a very gloomy day.

In Venice we caught a ferry around to San Marco square which took in the sights of the canals, bridges and beautiful old buildings, bathed in the late afternoon sun. We strolled around heading slowly back towards the railway station through what could also be described as the Worlds most expensive shopping mall. It was really picturesque but quite maze like. We ended up following equally lost German tourists and followed an older Italian Woman who spoke no English.

We then caught the train to Milan. In Milan, Mussolini built the railway station to impress which it did. Unfortunately, it was not designed for Australian travelers to be found by their Italian friends. After one hour of walking around with no phone credit and finding faulty pay phones, I finally made contact with our friend. I had to borrow a phone from a "City Angel" (a voulantary vigilanti security force)! We got there in the end and while it sounds like a contiki tour less the drunk 20 somethings, we actually had a fun day.