When does one receive three coffees, red and white wine, two sandwiches, three rolls, and tomato and mozzarella for free? When does one receive all of this for free while sitting at a mobile cafe as the lush Italian countryside breezes past them through the window? Oh, that would be Sierra and me as we are aboard TrenItalia from Bologna, Italy to Munich, Germany, a seven hour venture.
To our delight and surprise we stumbled upon a cafe aboard the magical train, complete with wide windows, high stools and tables…the perfect spot to set up and do some writing and photo work.
*By the way, in case you all were wondering, lengthy train rides are where and when we attempt to complete all of our online work. However, as usually there are no outlets on trains, sometimes this means we find an internet cafe to hole up in for an hour or several, or, to our luck, friends’ homes we’ve stayed in have internet to relieve us of late night or early morning ventures to seek out an internet cafe.*
To lift our spirits even higher, the wonderful man working behind the counter took heart to us and supplied us with all of the food and drink we needed to get us through the ride.
My heart was filled during that long, and what would have been discomforting and tedious ride, as we were able to share laughs, bites and sips with the happiest train attendant there ever was. It made me appreciate just how far a kind word and helping hand can carry you throughout the day.
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