I'm a planner! Once we know where we're going and when, I start making reservations. I booked trains to Cinque Terre out of Chambéry 4 months ago. Good price when you book early, less than 250€ for the whole family from Chambéry to Turin, to Genoa, then finally Monterosso. Can't beat that.
I can't plan for Mother Nature. Rain started to come down a few days ago and it rained and rained. Thunder and lightning! Not good news for us. Our train out of Chambéry was cancelled due to a landslide. All railroads are closed until further notice. Alright, that's ok. We'll take bus. Scooped up the last 5 tickets with FlixBus into Turin. If everything goes well, we'll still be able to make our connections in Turin. That's a big if. Our 7:50am bus didn't show, was delayed to 10:50am. Ten fifty came and went, no bus. It didn't show up until 2:30pm. We remained hopeful. We should be able to get in Monterosso by midnight.
We got on the bus, feeling pretty good about the rest of the trip. I could finally close my eyes and take a snooze. And I did.
An hour later, I woke up, checking our progress. Looking at the map, I was surprised to see that we were travelling away from Turin. 😂 Looked like the bus had turned around and took a different route. Oh man... May this day end soon. Safe and sound!!!
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