Strikes in Italy are not...
Strikes in Italy are not uncommon and can happend at anytime. I was travelling from Firenze to Zurich on an overnight train with a friend from Switzerland. Our train stops at 2am in the middle of a field. The announcer comes on and says something rapidly in Italian (of course). Now my friend just finished an 8-week program studying Italian in Firenze and she had no idea what was said but we got the gjist when everyone began gathering their belongings and leaving the train. It was an unexpected strike. So we gathered our backpacks and joined them. We walked across a field of something mushy to some buses that were parked alongside a country road. The buses took us to the Swiss border where we were able to climb aboard one of the wonderful Swiss trains. We arrived safely in Zurich several hours late but heh, isn't this what travelling is all about-adventure?































