I got up in the morning and got ready for the day. The Sunflower City Backpacker Hotel is located in a quite residential neghbourhood and it was a nice walk back to the train station. I bought a one-way ticket from Rimini to San Marino at the Tabaccheria opposite the railway station and went and waited at the bus stop which was about a 3-4 minute walk to the right. ...
A weekend in between a work visit to Spain gave me the chance to explore 2 microstates in neighboring Italy. My flight from Barcelona to Rome was early in the morning. It wasn’t too long. I had booked a shuttle from the airport to Vatican City. The bus dropped me off a couple of blocks away. There was some festival or event there that day, and there were devotees in huge numbers walking towards St. Peter’s Square. Regular tourists like me were able to reach St. Peter’s Square but could not go towards Saint Peter’s Basilica and the Sistine Chapel directly. ...
The plan for today was to make a day trip to Milan and add Italy to my travel map. I had started thinking about this two weeks before but the train tickets from Zurich to Milan were already quite expensive. So I decided to go by bus. I booked my onward journey on FlixBus for €19,00 and I found a good price of £22.10 on loco2.com for the return by train. My journey would take me over the Gotthard Pass by road and return via the Gotthard Tunnel by rail. The Gotthard Base Tunnel was still under construction and only opened in 2016 so I didn’t get to experience that. ...