A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco

Re:A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco by davidw on Thursday March 11, 2021 @06:41PM (#26430472)

Had a friend come visit us in Padova who wanted to see Venice, but ended up getting off in Mestre, which is kind of a newer, more industrial, and not particularly nice place. I still feel bad about not being able to take the day and actually show him around Venice myself.

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Re:A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco by eCa on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:12PM (#26430704)

To be fair, it's a ten minute train ride from Mestre to Venice, so slightly easier to correct than Maine->SF.

But I don't understand why the station is sometimes(always?) called Venezia Mestre. Anyone going to Mestre on purpose knows where they are going, and no one going to Venice wants to get off at Mestre.

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Re:A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco by schoen on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:14PM (#26431869)

A lot of European long-distance train stations are named like "Bigcity Neighborhoodname" or "Bigcity Suburbname". If you want to go downtown you really have to get used to booking (and watching for!) Bigcity Central/Centraal/Centrale/Sentral/Hbf/HB/H, or you can go very awry all over Europe...

In Frankfurt, Germany, you also have to be additionally careful if a station is signed as Frankfurt(Main), because there (Main) indicates the major city on the River Main, as distinct from the other Frankfurt on the River Oder (along the border with Poland). For example,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_(Main)_S%C3%BCd_stat...

is definitely not the main station of Frankfurt(Main). :-)

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Re:A lost tourist who thought Maine was San Francisco by ArgyleSound on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:15PM (#26431174)

Cheap hotels isn’t it

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