With the one full non-travel day having been spent exploring the city and country of San Marino, I had made sure that my train out of Rimini was late enough to give me a chance to explore the city before I had to head to the station. As such day 5 of (Not Quite) All the Small Things started with me heading away from Rimini’s station to the first of many Roman ruins, the Roman Amphitheatre.
Having arrived in Rimini onboard a Trenitalia Frecciarossa from Bologna, I had two nights and about one and a half days based on the Adriatic Coast. Whilst I wanted to spend some time exploring the city itself, the main purpose of my stay was to tick off another micro-nation, San Marino.
Bologna is one of Italy’s major railway crossroads, with high-speed, inter-city, regional and local lines intersecting at the city’s main station, Bologna Centrale. Having arrived into the underground platforms that serve the high-speed Turin to Salerno route (via Milan, Bologna, Florence & Rome), I had made my way through the underground maze to reach the station’s ground level platforms.
Having arrived in Milan onboard an SBB service from Zurich, I was about halfway through my travels for the day, with two trains left to take before I arrived at my destination for the evening. The first of these was from Milano Centrale to Bologna Centrale with Trenitalia in ‘Business Class’.
Starting Day 3 of (Not Quite) All the Small Things with a visit to the world’s sixth smallest country, Liechtenstein, it was soon time for me to head back into Switzerland and catch a train to Zurich for the next leg of my journey. With my end destination for the day being Rimini on Italy’s Adriatic Coast, I had a few trains ahead of me. First step was to cross the Alps with SBB from Zurich to Milano Centrale.
Day 2 of (Not Quite) All the Small Things had ended in the Swiss town of Sargans in the east of country following rail journeys with DB and SBB. Day 3 was another full day of travel but started a bit differently, with a bus across an international border.
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