During our travel days, Andrea, Jessica and I decided to take an early bus to Fano. The woman at the ticket center in Cagli was very helpful and she told us that we would have to change busses. Andrea told us that we would need to ask the driver if the bus was going to Fano, so we all agreed we would do it.
I remembered that we were told he bus would say Fano on it, so when we arrived at Calamazzo to change busses, we found one that said Fano and got on it. We made one major mistake, when we got onto the bus, we did not ask if the bus was going to Fano, we just assumed.
Shortly after the bus started moving, we realized that the bus was heading to Ubino. I had to lean over to the women sitting across from me and ask, "Tu parli in Englese?" They all chuckled and said no, to which I responded, "Andiamo a Fano?" This elicited a more serious reaction of "No, andiamo a Urbino."
We had already been to Urbino, and now were a little upset that this mishap would be cutting into our tanning time. This young woman sitting behind me, overheard our conversation, and told us that the next bus to Fano would leave about 20 minutes after our arrival to Urbino.
Although this as a wrench in our plans, asking the question, got us the information we needed to get back to Fano and spend the day in the sun. Once in Urbino, I realized that the bus system in Italy is just like the subway system in NYC, you just have to know where you are going. If you do not know, ask questions, otherwise, your tanning time may get cut by two hours.
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