Train from the Alps to Venice, Italian culture and tourists, pizza and cheap red wine above the canals, Bologna and its university, revolutionaries mixed with punk rock and beer, Florence with the Duomo and Renaissance masters, Pisa and the tower with its complex, Cinque Terre hiking, microwave pizza and a funeral, on to Genova with a California girl, pizza with sardines, contemplating the meaning of the Great European Adventure, on a ferry from Italy to Spain, walk off amongst palm trees and Barcelona