Rome to Folgarida

Friday, 3 July 2026

This day was always going to be big.

We took an early bus to Rome Central Station, had a relaxing 3 hour train ride to Milan, smoothly cleared the train station without getting our stuff stolen (unlike an unfortunate Australian orienteer who lost his passport and laptop in a split second of distraction), jumped onto an airport bus to Bergamo (Milan's most inconvenient airport, but the airport we are flying to Dublin from in a few weeks time). At the airport we had our most stressful 40 minutes as we tried to negotiate with the car rental lady who was unhappy with the lack of an issue date on our licences.  Thankfully it ended up ok and our next stop was a shuttle to the rental cars, then a supermarket, then a 3 hour drive up and over a mountain pass then up again to our airbnb in a little ski town called Folgarida, high above the valley.