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| ITALY - UMBRIA & TUSCANY 2007: Trip Report |
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We started our tour by taking the train to Orvieto. Because it was a Sunday the ticket office at Zagarolo was closed but we bought a local ticket to Rome at the news stand near the station and then the tickets to Orvieto from the machine at Rome. The machines offer English instructions and take credit cards. For a bicycle you can either buy a standard single ticket, as for a person, or a 24 hour multiple use ticket for 3.50 Euro.
You must stamp the tickets at a little yellow machine before boarding the train. There is nothing to warn you about this, and the machines are scattered around the station rather than being at the entrance to the platforms. A lot of them are out of order, so you may have to try a couple. There are inspectors on most trains and you risk a fine if your ticket isn’t stamped.
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There was a carriage for bikes on the train. The front end on the train from Zagarolo to Rome and the rear on the train from Rome to Orvieto.
The racks on the train to Rome were quite sophisticated and it took a few minutes to figure out how they worked.
On the train to Orvieto the bikes simply hung from hooks.
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The trains don’t stop for long at the small stations and we were nervous about having time to board and disembark.
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