Next I looked for the Leonardo Express train that takes you to the Roma Termini, where trains leave for all parts of Italy and even allow you to connect to parts of Europe and I’m guessing Asia. I followed the signs, walked across a pedestrian walkway outside the airport and up some stairs where I saw a sign on a small one man booth that said Leonardo Express. The man selling tickets was helpful and spoke English well enough and pointed me to the place the train stopped, which was on the same platform.

These shuttle trains run every 30 minutes, so I was quickly able to catch one and was on my way. I struck up a conversation with an older couple from Upstate NY sitting next to me. The husband had a convention in Sardinia. The view outside the train was of the highway, apartment buildings with wet clothes hanging out to dry and some ancient roman aqueducts. I seemed more fascinated with the clothes hanging out to dry, as I would always like to do that, but HOA’s don’t seem to allow it and I guess it’s somehow beneath us in the states to do it as a society, at least in the suburbs. I think it is a great way to save electricity and we get more than plenty of sun in Florida for it.

When I arrived at the Roma Termini, I quickly found the teller to purchase my ticket to Napoli and stood online for another 15 minutes. She spoke English and gave me 3 options to get there. All options were different prices and left at different times, but they all got there at the same time, so I just chose the cheapest which was an almost 3 hours trip and left the earliest. The other trains were faster and more direct, but left later...so it was a matter of doing simple math :-) I was able to use a credit card (my plan was to use a credit card as often as I could, so I wouldn’t run out of cash). I quickly found my train and looked for a bathroom before boarding. That’s where I was reminded that most bathrooms charge for there use, .60 Euro in this case and  discovered that the toilets in public Italian restrooms didn’t have seats, as I would realize later on in my trip too. I did my business and filled up my water bottom from the tap (I read somewhere the water in Rome was very clean) and I boarded my train which left within minutes.