We arrived in Brindisi 90 minutes later than scheduled after a great night's sleep, but since our train wasn't until just before 2pm the late arrival didn't cause any concern! Unfortunately the shuttle bus doesn't go to the train station, so we were dropped off by the green clock again and had to make our own way to the train station.
We stopped off on the way for a quick breakfast at the AmericanBar - they served amazingly good pain au chocolat! Unfortunately we then got slightly lost - whilst walking to the ferry port seemed like a straight line, in the reverse direction there's actually a junction where you need to go to the right - of course, we went to the left. Richard left Elaine and Claire in what seemed like a nice park and went to find the station - unfortunately the park was completely fly infested so they were very happy when Richard returned a few minutes later, having located the station a couple of minutes' walk away!
After depositing our bags in the left luggage room (on platform 1, but in the opposite direction to the left luggage signs!) we had a walk round Brindisi - Elaine wanted to pick up some socks as her feet had been very cold on the sleeper on the way out. We spent some time sitting in a little square writing our article for Earthwatcher then had lunch at a small restaurant (which for some reason had a large London Underground poster on the wall!) and finally visited the local supermarket for supplies for the trip home.
The train station was a little chaotic as quite a few trains were running late - luckily (given that we had quite a tight connection at Milan) ours was on time. The journey up to Milan passed relatively quickly - whilst Richard and Claire did some more work on the article, Elaine finally managed to finish Harry Potter, so Richard got his chance to read it!
We made our connection at Milan with about 15 minutes to spare - our 6 berth couchette was again full, but the beds were already made and our fellow passengers quickly went to sleep.
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