Today's plan was to travel to Monaco, however the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry... We had planned to catch the sardine train (without luggage) to Monaco. We walked back to the station to catch the train however what we didn't count on was that the trains leave infrequently on a Saturday: instead of every 30 minutes on a weekday. As we were due at the airport at 3 pm and the next train was 12:55, with travel time we would be spending at maximum...

From Arenzano we travelled back to Genoa, where we had to say goodbye to our little Lancia as we were scheduled to catch the train to Ventimille, near the boarder of France. On boarding we realised that we were going to be in for an interesting ride. The carriages, which paid homage to 70's train travel, were full up with people who were not ticket holders and just sat anywhere they could get away with it. Our cabin of 6 saw us sharing our 2 hour ride with two h...