Four trains, a ferry, an ATM card and a squashed conductor

That's how to get from Sorrento, Italy to Split in Croatia without actually riding a bike across the middle of the country. Despite the Italians love of cycling, the trains aren't so bike friendly with only certain slow trains accepting bicycles. When they say they accept bikes all this means is that they slap a bike sticker on a random door that in most cases is 3 feet off the ground.

So it was an 11 hour journey to get from Sorrento via Naples and Rome to Ancona where the Croatian ferries depart. It was at about hour 5 in Rome when an ATM decided that it would prefer to hold on to my card (one card down, three to go) and the 11th hour when a conductor thought he'd help Vanessa get her bike from the train. He didn't quite realise that there was 20 kilos of weight on the back and promptly got stuck under it.

Alas, we finally made it onto the ferry in Ancona where I now write this (sadly no internet here) and in the morning we should be in Split. Another stamp in the passport.