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Author: PeterTPeterT Date: Apr 26, 2008 03:24
Me & wife have decided to be frivilously mobile in July and pop over
to Rome for a few days. Flying in Fuimicino Airport - anyone have any
advice on how to get from there to the city? Plan to make a token
gesture and take a train.
Will offset any carbon used by bringing back a few apples -
airfreighted fruit is, apparently, carbon neutral.
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Ken Livingstone 2001.
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Author: JNugentJNugent Date: Apr 26, 2008 03:51
PeterT wrote:
> Me & wife have decided to be frivilously mobile in July and pop over
> to Rome for a few days. Flying in Fuimicino Airport - anyone have any
> advice on how to get from there to the city? Plan to make a token
> gesture and take a train.
I've never flown to Rome (always driven in from the SS1 or A1), and when
my son flew there he had a hire car, but I understand that there is a
rail service to Termini from the airport, as well as various bus links
to the Centro Storico.
> Will offset any carbon used by bringing back a few apples -
> airfreighted fruit is, apparently, carbon neutral.
Italian apples?
Why not bring back some saffron, some Parmeggiano Reggiano, some
Pecorino and some local Lazio rosso?
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Author: Knight Of The RoadKnight Of The Road Date: Apr 26, 2008 04:45
"JNugent" NPPTG.com> wrote
> Why not bring back some saffron, some Parmeggiano Reggiano, some Pecorino
> and some local Lazio rosso?
>
Mozzarella, Sambuca...
Drove there the week before last but never flown there...
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Date: Apr 26, 2008 05:26
JNugent NPPTG.com> wrote:
> PeterT wrote:
>
>> Me & wife have decided to be frivilously mobile in July and pop over
>> to Rome for a few days. Flying in Fuimicino Airport - anyone have any
>> advice on how to get from there to the city? Plan to make a token
>> gesture and take a train.
Train is about the only way IMO, the taxi drivers are bastards and the
hire car companies at Fiumicino are staffed by "I don't give a toss"
rentadroids and the cars available are all abused, battered and
unreliable. Every time I've had to use Fiumicino and hire a car it has
taken four or five attempts before finding a car that works properly.
Make sure you get the Leonardo Express which takes 30 minutes from
Fiumicino to Termini. The trains leave at five past and 25 minutes to
the hour starting at 06:35 and ending at 23:35. There's also the Metro
which has trains every 15 minutes to Tiburtina. It takes much longer
than the express.
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Date: Apr 26, 2008 05:37
Knight Of The Road hotmail.com> wrote:
> "JNugent" NPPTG.com> wrote
> >> Why not bring back some saffron, some Parmeggiano Reggiano, some Pecorino
>> and some local Lazio rosso?
>>
>
> Mozzarella, Sambuca...
>
> Drove there the week before last but never flown there...
It's just like driving, except that you get the experience of what it's
like to be your cargo.
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Author: JNugentJNugent Date: Apr 26, 2008 05:57
Steve Firth wrote:
> JNugent NPPTG.com> wrote:>> PeterT wrote:
>>> Me & wife have decided to be frivilously mobile in July and pop over
>>> to Rome for a few days. Flying in Fuimicino Airport - anyone have any
>>> advice on how to get from there to the city? Plan to make a token
>>> gesture and take a train.
> Train is about the only way IMO, the taxi drivers are bastards and the
> hire car companies at Fiumicino are staffed by "I don't give a toss"
> rentadroids and the cars available are all abused, battered...
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Date: Apr 26, 2008 06:12
JNugent NPPTG.com> wrote:
> Italians refer to Pecorino as the Roman cheese.
Err no. Most refer to it as the Norcian cheese. Well in fact where I
live we refer to it as "Pecorino Nostro", "our cheese".
> At the moment, I think there are difficulties over the import of some
> foodstuffs into the UK (even from another EEC country). Not sure whether
> cauliflower and celery would fall foul of that (though again, these are
> relatively short-lived things which are better eaten on the spot in any
> case).
>
> < http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/downloadFile?contentID=HM
> CE_PROD_009828>
>
> Do cauliflowers count as "certain plants and their produce, including
> trees, shrubs, potatoes, certain fruit, bulbs and seeds"?
No sorry you have that wrong or at the very least the document is poorly
written. It's not illegal to import milk, meat and vegetable, plants,
seeds etc from an EU country. It *is* illegal to bring those products
into the EU from a country that is outside the EU.
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Author: peterthomas8899peterthomas8899 Date: Apr 28, 2008 03:35
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:24:30 +0100, PeterT
googlemail.com> wrote:
>Me & wife have decided to be frivilously mobile in July and pop over
>to Rome for a few days. Flying in Fuimicino Airport - anyone have any
>advice on how to get from there to the city? Plan to make a token
>gesture and take a train.
>
>Will offset any carbon used by bringing back a few apples -
>airfreighted fruit is, apparently, carbon neutral.
Thanks for the replies, and the recomendations!
Train it is - I can't be arsed to hire a car and then try to park it
in Rome.
The promise to airfreight some apples back seems to have held off
criticism from Duhng about my frivilously hypermobile break - probably
have to try that again!!
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Only some ghastly, dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.
Ken Livingstone 2001.
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