Travelling, I mean really physically traveling, like from point A to point B, can be very demanding: physically and emotionally, financially, and temporally. It is taxing emotionally, demanding alot of energy to figure out everything, and waiting in hot crammed buses and trams. Transportation is expensive in general, and it can take a damned lot of time.
Getting to Italy from Brussels is a case in point: walk to the right tram station, get to the bus station, take a bus to the airport an hour away, deal with a crowded airport, slowly making ones way through check-in and security, flying to an airport outside of Rome, and taking yet another hour long bus ride to Rome train station. Then to figure out how to get tickets in an Italian speaking country, and catch the last train to Naples, where a Taxi to the hostel is necessary, if not only because of our sheer exhaustion, then because of the extreme sketchiness of this city (think mafia, and pickpockets).
Well, of course not all went according to plan... we missed the last train to Naples... by several hours... thanks Lonely Planet for your worthless Getting There sections. The train station area of Rome is rather sketchy, so we promptly found the closest hotel we could and stayed the night. We completed the train/taxi deal to our hostel in Naples, to find that they had canceled the reservation, and charged me for the night anyway :-(
Well, we found a place across the street that was decent, and half a day late, we were in Naples!
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