Thanks! I appreciate it. Where will you be visiting on this trip?

10 relaxing days full of wandering in bella Roma.
:)

Sea Urchin: What a wonderful report and you with such good humor after that awful train incident. I will be saving the restaurant recommendations for SML, you can be certain!

So, the Rome train goes to Rapallo. But there must be another train line passing through SML, correct? Would this one go to La Spezia? (Just asking in case we do firm up our trip and decide to fly into Pisa..)

I am also interested in the Hindu veg meal choice: Do you always order these (I see that you are not a vegetarian!) and if so, what do they often consist of?

Thanks again for taking the time to write this!

Thanks! I will have to read it again, that is one reason I post these reports, they are for me to refer to later too.

Yes, at Rapallo we would have to transfer to another train for SML and we decided against schlepping the luggage just for that one staton down the line, so we took a taxi from Rapallo to SML. But you have to remember we are train-challenged and the local train would have worked just as well. Yes it is the same line to La Spez.

The Hindu meal is vegetables, garbanza beans in a light curry sauce over basmati rice, salad, naan and fruit. Sometimes they have chicken in the sauce. It smells so good that people nearby sometimes ask for a meal like mine but they are stuck with their standard ones.