Leaving from one place to another was definitely the least favourite thing in my to-do list. It was always the case when we were travelling in Europe. First, I reached a country where I knew nothing about it except for the name of the place and probably some famous attractions in the place. After spending a few days, I would start to get familiarised with the area that I temporarily lived in. Then. it would turn into sad goodbye as we would need to continue our adventure to a new country or city and the process would repeat. I guessed that was the downside of being a traveller.

Day 1

Roma Termini

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After packing our bags, we went to La Spieza to board the Trenitalia to Rome. How long does it take to travel from Cinque Terre to Rome? The journey had taken about five and half hours as we were travelling from northern part of the Italy where Cinque Terre located to the central part of the Italy where Rome was. The train ticket from Cinque Terre to Rome cost about 56 Euros which was kind of expensive after conversion to myr (approximately RM280) but that was the most ideal way to get to Rome so we cannot complain about it.

New day new journey. In order to get to Cinque Terre from Venice, we had to get to Milan and change the train to Monterosso. I was slightly disappointed that we could not include Milan into our third leg due to limited time. Nonetheless, we managed to caught a glimpse of the famous Duomo di Milano (I think that was the building) while the train was heading to Milan's train station.



The views from the train was nothing but gorgeous at every angle. Perhaps that was the main reason sometimes taking a train from one place to another was way more expensive compared to other means of transportation, even by flight! That being said, travelling by plane in the Europe was therefore comparably cheap as they can get as low as 10 Euros or even lower depending on the seasons and place.

This was the final leg of our Europe trip. We had been staying for about half a year in the UK and everything seemed to be going well and smoothly so far. There were definitely ups and downs (not going to lie and portray a too perfect life) throughout these six months but undoubtedly we felt happy most of the time and we tried to be optimistic in all circumstances.

With a heavy heart, we left Newcastle to London via the train to kick-start our third vacation in Europe. After travelling to east and west side of Europe, it was time to spend some time in the southern Europe. First we were in some sort of dilemma as we were not sure to choose which countries but after sitting down and discussing the pros and cons of each place (including our remaining budgets), we decided that Italy would be our destination.

After reaching London, we went to deposit our bags and luggage at the nearest locker station that we could find, we went to the Southend Airport after a quick lunch as it was quite far from the city itself and we were not familiar with the area in the first place. So as a precaution, we reached the airport around midnight as the tube service stopped operating until early morning which would be too late for us to catch our flights (eight in the morning).

Day 1

Venice Marco Polo Airport