That airport monorail in Bologna being so expensive reminds me of the AirTrain JFK! Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport and in turn the Marconi Express are both named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate. Marconi is known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to him being credited as the inventor of radio and winning the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun. In 1929, Marconi was ennobled as a Marchese (marquis) by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, and in 1931, he set up Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI. Bologna was once part of the Etruscan civilization, and has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it Felsina; “hospitable place”), then under the Celts as Bona ("fortified place"), later under the Romans (Bonōnia), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later signoria. Rimini was also once under the Etruscans until the arrival of the Celts, who held it from the 6th century BC until their defeat by the Umbri in 283 BC. In 268 BC at the mouth of the Ariminus (now called the Marecchia), the Roman Republic founded the colonia of Ariminum. Thanks to the foresight of the emperors Augustus, Tiberius and Hadrian, who saw Rimini as the perfect meeting point between Via Flaminia and Via Emilia. The mouth of the Marecchia is also the legendary site where a story states that Anthony of Padua preached to fish. And it's worth mentioning that the Italian and Sammarinese governments want to revive the entire rail line! In September 2022, Federico Pedini Amati, San Marino's Secretary of State for Tourism, and Massimo Garavaglia, Italy's Minister of Tourism, announced that their governments had begun preliminary processes to reopen the line in its entirety. It was envisaged that the first phase would reactivate the Sammarinese section, followed by the section to Cerasolo, and finally the section to Rimini. In November 2022, Italy's Ministry of Tourism made 2 million euros available for the feasibility study. In December 2022, Amati reiterated that restoring the line between Borgo Maggiore and San Marino was a "political obligation". By September 2023, the Sammarinese government had authorized extending the restored section into Piazzale della Stazione
Yup, as mentioned, their constitution dates back to 1600, making San Marino the oldest constitutional republic in the world! According to a legend about its foundation, Saint Marinus left the island of Rab in what's now Croatia with his lifelong friend Leo and went to Rimini as a stonemason. After the Diocletianic Persecution following his Christian sermons, he escaped to Monte Titano, where he built a small church and thus founded what is now the city and state of San Marino in 301. Other interesting facts about them: The nation was one of the first countries to have a postal system in the 1600s! In June 1944, San Marino was bombed by four waves of Allied bombers under the false belief that San Marino had been occupied by German forces and was being used to amass stores and ammunition, even though San Marino was neutral, no military installations or equipment were located on its territory, and that no belligerent forces had been allowed to enter. So yeah, the Allies attacked and destroyed the railway even though San Marino wasn't occupied. After the line was attacked, its tunnels sheltered refugees during the Battles of Rimini and San Marino. San Marino accepted thousands of civilian refugees when Allied forces overran the Gothic Line, so the Italian unification process wasn't the only time they accepted refugees! In September 1944, it was briefly occupied by German forces, who were defeated in the Battle of San Marino. Allied troops occupied San Marino for two months before departing. During the American Civil War, San Marino proposed a republican alliance with the US, and the government made Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. In 2021, San Marino sent FLO RIDA as a guest performer of Senhit for the song Adrenalina in Eurovision! Also in 2021, San Marino won their first Olympic medals, three of them at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics! Alessandra Perilli, who finished 4th in the Women's Trap final at London 2012, went on to win two medals at Tokyo 2020, first a bronze in the Women's Trap and two days later, silver with Gian Marco Berti in the Mixed Trap Team final. Dearborn, Michigan-born Myles Aime won their second bronze in Men's freestyle 86 kg wrestling. San Marino's coat of arms has three towers and three hills, representing the three citadels (La Guaita, La Cesta and La Montale) on the three summits of Monte Titano. During the Cold War, San Marino had the world's first democratically elected communist government, a coalition between the Sammarinese Communist Party and the Sammarinese Socialist Party, which held office between 1945 and 1957. The coalition lost power through the Fatti di Rovereta or Rovereta affair. Following events in the Eastern Bloc in 1956, some socialist deputies abandoned the coalition. In September 1957, the coalition lost its majority when a socialist deputy crossed over to the opposition, reducing the number of pro-coalition deputies to 29. The tenure of the assembly ended in October that year, placing the government in constitutional limbo. The Christian Democratic deputies refused to attend session, and instead occupied a factory in Rovereta and set up a provisional government there. The Italian and US government pledged support to the provisional government, whilst the communist-socialist coalition (with support of Italian communists) sought to resist the attempt to establish a provisional government.
Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Vatican City are the microstates that have a rail connection with another country. Monaco has frequent passenger trains as it is part of the TER line between Nice and Ventimiglia. Liechtenstein has scheduled passenger trains with several stops but much less frequent. The Vatican has a rail spur that is rarely used and no scheduled passenger trains.
Still can be cheaper: I've been to San Marino last week. I first took a regular 'city' bus from Rimini to the border near Dogana (ticket costed 2 euro (not 1 as I previously wrote) on board from a small machine, although it should have cost more, but I guess nobody cares about zones), walked across into RSM and then took a Sammarinese local bus into the city: 1.20 euro (from a tabaccheria or online). These buses do not run frequently and they don't run on Sundays!
There are a couple of ways I can think of to use local buses to go from Rimini to San Marino city: one, as in this comment, would be to take line 16 operated by Start Romagna from Rimini station, which stops near the Dogana border, cross it and then take line 7 operated by the Sammarinese company AASS. You could also take Start line 7 from Rimini to the Rovereta border and then AASS line 4. Finally, the most "exotic" way, that may only be possible once or twice per day, would be to take Start line 3P from Rimini and cross the border into Torraccia, where AASS line 6 begins. There are even more possibilities that rely on special school deviations of Start line 160 or rural lines operated by the Valmabus consortium, but those would make the trip extremely long and not practical at all.
You can even walk from the airport to the main station oin Bolognia, it's only 7km. Nice city sightseeing walk included. If you do not have much luggage, it is an option. But reaching San Marino istn't more difficult than reaching any other small town far in the country side. In your case I would have bought the tickets simply from the bus driver which is usually the most convenient way if you have cash, but card payment may not be available in many cases.
After like 2 minutes I was ready to point out the missing rail link which once existed, but of course Thom has done proper research, as always! However, there is a great video about this train and the remains today by a british travel youtuber called TheTimTraveller. But he did cut short on how to get to this massive nation: His explanation was like 3 sentences long. You guys more than filled that gap! Anyways, thanks to Thom and Bear for the great footage.
I used to live in Bologna and went to San Marino many times. Shout out to you guys for walking towards Borgo Panigale Railway Station as the monorail is a rip off (and TPER Bologna cannot compete by law with it). San Marino had a railway connection to Rimini that operated between 1932 and 1944, when the British bombed it due to a false military intelligence. The line was never rebuilt and was replaced by a highway and buses, but about 1 mile of it is still preserved and runs heritage services (Treno Biancazzurro) with one of the original trainsets and there. There is an agreement between Italy and San Marino (and Italian Fondazione FS) to rebuild the line for full tourist trains. Napoleon had further offered Rimini and some nearby towns to San Marino but the latter rejected it not to harm the neutraility of the country
This is exactly my plan to visit San Marino one day. Good to see that it is viable! I believe that Bologna is a major hub of the Italian train system so it is somewhat difficult to avoid Bologna on a trip to Northern Italy if you are using intercity trains to get around.
I loved visiting San Marino! Fun fact: the tunnel the train ran through, now where the tourist train runs, is open to walk through. I didn’t get a chance to actually ride the train, but walking the tunnel was a cool experience.
Now ever since Treno Bianco Azzurro runs more regularly, it is actually forbidden on paper to walk on the tunnel but many people still do despite there are cameras
Fascinating video! Never been to San Marino, but we have our own San Marino here in California. It was the home of Henry Edwards Huntington, who built the Pacific Electric. But not nearly as interesting a place!
Thank you for this great video ! Most enjoyable, and I must confess I’ve not yet visited San Marino ! I must visit soon, as being a great lover of all things Italian, it would be rude not to !
Among the microstates, I've been to Vatican City (walked from the nearest Roma Metro station) and passed through Liechtenstein (on the Wien to Buchs (CH) train). 7:02 - "A new country for this channel" - How many countries has this channel been to?
Trenitalia has just announced that all regional trains will get a new livery and be rebranded, becoming just "Regionale" ("Regional"). With this, the trains will lose their “musical” names. The "Pop" train sets are derived from the Alstom Coradia Stream platform. "Tabaccai" (tobacconists) in Italy are way more than just places to buy tobacco. They have in fact become multiservice centres. The one in the centre of the town I live in, is a good example... other than tobacco, you go there to buy lotteries, bus tickets, post cards, envelopes, and other assorted stationery. It's also where you come to post parcels and letters when the queue in the post office is just too long (they are a Poste Italiane agency, too). It's also where you can post and pick up UPS and FedEx parcels, and serves as an Amazon Point. Not only that, but it's where you buy notarial stamps (which you affix to documents to render them official) and pay bills. And, before the state let go of the monopoly, it was where you went to buy salt (!) - for the sake of it he still has a few packages in the shelves, but these days if you want salt you just go to the supermarket...
@@Thom-TRAmy apologies, perhaps I am mishearing you at 2:39. Going back, I do hear you pronounce it “ch” earlier in the video. No harm intended. Keep up the great work. Among creators, you put way more effort into pronunciation than most.
A nice video definitely enjoyed and it's fun to see how you can get there by PT aka public transit (Edit) this comment is from the trains are great second channel
Italian here. Train announcements are always in Standard Italian so that everybody can understand them. Italy also uses other languages, such as German, French and Slovenian (in border regions where these three languages are co-official), as well as English, in train announcements. The languages you're referring to, however, are never employed in public settings.
You can clearly tell that man was just avoiding the crowds at the bus stop. I don’t like people in the bike lanes either. But damn, you all collectively have major anger issues.
@@Thom-TRA Hi! Local from Rimini here: I can suggest a way more practical way to get from Bologna airport to the station: you just need to walk outside the parking lots and under the highway, and you can find a bus stop called "Birra" served by bus lines 81 and 91 that run directly to the station every 15 minutes. You can just use a regular urban ticket that costs 1.50€, which can also be paid using a contactless card directly on the bus. There's also a direct and frequent private bus line from Bologna airport to Rimini station: the only reason why it makes sense is that the Marconi Express from Bologna station to the airport costs more than a regional train ticket from Rimini to Bologna.
Different variants of English use different words for this sport. American English and a few others, like Canadian English use Soccer, while most others use Football like the rest of the world. So…
It's "Association Football" so either the contraction, soccer, or football, are acceptible terms. Soccer is actually more useful because it's clear that you don't mean Rugby, American, Canadian, Australian, or any other kind of football.
It’s very common to buy metro and bus tickets from “tabaccherie” in Italy. Stamps and random things like school supplies too 😂
Hey, as long as it’s communicated, it’s all good!
That airport monorail in Bologna being so expensive reminds me of the AirTrain JFK! Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport and in turn the Marconi Express are both named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate. Marconi is known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to him being credited as the inventor of radio and winning the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun. In 1929, Marconi was ennobled as a Marchese (marquis) by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, and in 1931, he set up Vatican Radio for Pope Pius XI. Bologna was once part of the Etruscan civilization, and has been an important urban center for centuries, first under the Etruscans (who called it Felsina; “hospitable place”), then under the Celts as Bona ("fortified place"), later under the Romans (Bonōnia), then again in the Middle Ages, as a free municipality and later signoria. Rimini was also once under the Etruscans until the arrival of the Celts, who held it from the 6th century BC until their defeat by the Umbri in 283 BC. In 268 BC at the mouth of the Ariminus (now called the Marecchia), the Roman Republic founded the colonia of Ariminum. Thanks to the foresight of the emperors Augustus, Tiberius and Hadrian, who saw Rimini as the perfect meeting point between Via Flaminia and Via Emilia. The mouth of the Marecchia is also the legendary site where a story states that Anthony of Padua preached to fish.
And it's worth mentioning that the Italian and Sammarinese governments want to revive the entire rail line! In September 2022, Federico Pedini Amati, San Marino's Secretary of State for Tourism, and Massimo Garavaglia, Italy's Minister of Tourism, announced that their governments had begun preliminary processes to reopen the line in its entirety. It was envisaged that the first phase would reactivate the Sammarinese section, followed by the section to Cerasolo, and finally the section to Rimini. In November 2022, Italy's Ministry of Tourism made 2 million euros available for the feasibility study. In December 2022, Amati reiterated that restoring the line between Borgo Maggiore and San Marino was a "political obligation". By September 2023, the Sammarinese government had authorized extending the restored section into Piazzale della Stazione
Lets bring it back!
Yup, as mentioned, their constitution dates back to 1600, making San Marino the oldest constitutional republic in the world! According to a legend about its foundation, Saint Marinus left the island of Rab in what's now Croatia with his lifelong friend Leo and went to Rimini as a stonemason. After the Diocletianic Persecution following his Christian sermons, he escaped to Monte Titano, where he built a small church and thus founded what is now the city and state of San Marino in 301. Other interesting facts about them: The nation was one of the first countries to have a postal system in the 1600s! In June 1944, San Marino was bombed by four waves of Allied bombers under the false belief that San Marino had been occupied by German forces and was being used to amass stores and ammunition, even though San Marino was neutral, no military installations or equipment were located on its territory, and that no belligerent forces had been allowed to enter. So yeah, the Allies attacked and destroyed the railway even though San Marino wasn't occupied. After the line was attacked, its tunnels sheltered refugees during the Battles of Rimini and San Marino. San Marino accepted thousands of civilian refugees when Allied forces overran the Gothic Line, so the Italian unification process wasn't the only time they accepted refugees! In September 1944, it was briefly occupied by German forces, who were defeated in the Battle of San Marino. Allied troops occupied San Marino for two months before departing.
During the American Civil War, San Marino proposed a republican alliance with the US, and the government made Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. In 2021, San Marino sent FLO RIDA as a guest performer of Senhit for the song Adrenalina in Eurovision! Also in 2021, San Marino won their first Olympic medals, three of them at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics! Alessandra Perilli, who finished 4th in the Women's Trap final at London 2012, went on to win two medals at Tokyo 2020, first a bronze in the Women's Trap and two days later, silver with Gian Marco Berti in the Mixed Trap Team final. Dearborn, Michigan-born Myles Aime won their second bronze in Men's freestyle 86 kg wrestling. San Marino's coat of arms has three towers and three hills, representing the three citadels (La Guaita, La Cesta and La Montale) on the three summits of Monte Titano. During the Cold War, San Marino had the world's first democratically elected communist government, a coalition between the Sammarinese Communist Party and the Sammarinese Socialist Party, which held office between 1945 and 1957. The coalition lost power through the Fatti di Rovereta or Rovereta affair. Following events in the Eastern Bloc in 1956, some socialist deputies abandoned the coalition. In September 1957, the coalition lost its majority when a socialist deputy crossed over to the opposition, reducing the number of pro-coalition deputies to 29. The tenure of the assembly ended in October that year, placing the government in constitutional limbo. The Christian Democratic deputies refused to attend session, and instead occupied a factory in Rovereta and set up a provisional government there. The Italian and US government pledged support to the provisional government, whilst the communist-socialist coalition (with support of Italian communists) sought to resist the attempt to establish a provisional government.
Also of course famous for the San Marino Grand Prix, though that isnt in San Marino but at Imola in Italy 🏎
Or for the other San Marino Grand Prix (MotoGP) at nearby Misano! 🏍️🏍️🏍️
Now Bear needs to do the once-weekly train to Vatican City!
Classy whale
Thanks to Bear and his awesome video footage and your awesome narrative!!!
Monaco, Liechtenstein, and Vatican City are the microstates that have a rail connection with another country. Monaco has frequent passenger trains as it is part of the TER line between Nice and Ventimiglia. Liechtenstein has scheduled passenger trains with several stops but much less frequent. The Vatican has a rail spur that is rarely used and no scheduled passenger trains.
I’ve taken the train through Liechtenstein! It was very slow
I don't know now, but in 2017 it was also possible to reach Singapore by train from Malaysia
Still can be cheaper: I've been to San Marino last week. I first took a regular 'city' bus from Rimini to the border near Dogana (ticket costed 2 euro (not 1 as I previously wrote) on board from a small machine, although it should have cost more, but I guess nobody cares about zones), walked across into RSM and then took a Sammarinese local bus into the city: 1.20 euro (from a tabaccheria or online). These buses do not run frequently and they don't run on Sundays!
Thanks for the tip!
There are a couple of ways I can think of to use local buses to go from Rimini to San Marino city: one, as in this comment, would be to take line 16 operated by Start Romagna from Rimini station, which stops near the Dogana border, cross it and then take line 7 operated by the Sammarinese company AASS.
You could also take Start line 7 from Rimini to the Rovereta border and then AASS line 4.
Finally, the most "exotic" way, that may only be possible once or twice per day, would be to take Start line 3P from Rimini and cross the border into Torraccia, where AASS line 6 begins.
There are even more possibilities that rely on special school deviations of Start line 160 or rural lines operated by the Valmabus consortium, but those would make the trip extremely long and not practical at all.
What a gorgeous looking place! Definitely another country for the bucket list!
You can even walk from the airport to the main station oin Bolognia, it's only 7km. Nice city sightseeing walk included. If you do not have much luggage, it is an option.
But reaching San Marino istn't more difficult than reaching any other small town far in the country side. In your case I would have bought the tickets simply from the bus driver which is usually the most convenient way if you have cash, but card payment may not be available in many cases.
And you don’t always know if there will be enough seats
Let's get a petition to get the train route from Rimini to San Marino 🇸🇲 back!
After like 2 minutes I was ready to point out the missing rail link which once existed, but of course Thom has done proper research, as always!
However, there is a great video about this train and the remains today by a british travel youtuber called TheTimTraveller. But he did cut short on how to get to this massive nation: His explanation was like 3 sentences long. You guys more than filled that gap!
Anyways, thanks to Thom and Bear for the great footage.
Thank you!
I used to live in Bologna and went to San Marino many times. Shout out to you guys for walking towards Borgo Panigale Railway Station as the monorail is a rip off (and TPER Bologna cannot compete by law with it).
San Marino had a railway connection to Rimini that operated between 1932 and 1944, when the British bombed it due to a false military intelligence. The line was never rebuilt and was replaced by a highway and buses, but about 1 mile of it is still preserved and runs heritage services (Treno Biancazzurro) with one of the original trainsets and there.
There is an agreement between Italy and San Marino (and Italian Fondazione FS) to rebuild the line for full tourist trains.
Napoleon had further offered Rimini and some nearby towns to San Marino but the latter rejected it not to harm the neutraility of the country
Did I pronounce Panigale right? I tried haha
As a ham radio operator I've contacted hams in San Marino many times.
My dad is a ham and I'm becoming one too
This is exactly my plan to visit San Marino one day. Good to see that it is viable! I believe that Bologna is a major hub of the Italian train system so it is somewhat difficult to avoid Bologna on a trip to Northern Italy if you are using intercity trains to get around.
Bologna is a nice town though!
I loved visiting San Marino! Fun fact: the tunnel the train ran through, now where the tourist train runs, is open to walk through. I didn’t get a chance to actually ride the train, but walking the tunnel was a cool experience.
Walking in tunnels is cool. We have a lot in the DC area!
Now ever since Treno Bianco Azzurro runs more regularly, it is actually forbidden on paper to walk on the tunnel but many people still do despite there are cameras
Fascinating video! Never been to San Marino, but we have our own San Marino here in California. It was the home of Henry Edwards Huntington, who built the Pacific Electric. But not nearly as interesting a place!
Too bad the Pacific Electric never managed to connect both San Marinos! That would have been a long underwater tunnel…
@@Thom-TRA Good one Thom! Of course, then it would have been the Atlantic Electric.
Thank you for this great video ! Most enjoyable, and I must confess I’ve not yet visited San Marino ! I must visit soon, as being a great lover of all things Italian, it would be rude not to !
I (Thom) haven’t been myself either!
I enjoyed that video👍👍
I’m glad!
Your brother sounds a little bit like Jay Baruchel.
Celebrated my anniversary in San Marino. Amazing time!
@@jasonpereira4024 that’s awesome!
Great Video! 🙂
Thanks!
Among the microstates, I've been to Vatican City (walked from the nearest Roma Metro station) and passed through Liechtenstein (on the Wien to Buchs (CH) train).
7:02 - "A new country for this channel" - How many countries has this channel been to?
The whole list is on our channel “about” page! I’ve lost count haha
San Marino is 27th on the list.
I will say that if you are in a power wheelchair walking that far would be murder on my batteries. I would have to take the monorail.
I loved this video! Cant wait for the next mexico episode tho!
Thom sure looks different in this video... Must be the Italian air.
It’s like he became 3 years younger!
Trenitalia has just announced that all regional trains will get a new livery and be rebranded, becoming just "Regionale" ("Regional"). With this, the trains will lose their “musical” names. The "Pop" train sets are derived from the Alstom Coradia Stream platform.
"Tabaccai" (tobacconists) in Italy are way more than just places to buy tobacco. They have in fact become multiservice centres. The one in the centre of the town I live in, is a good example... other than tobacco, you go there to buy lotteries, bus tickets, post cards, envelopes, and other assorted stationery. It's also where you come to post parcels and letters when the queue in the post office is just too long (they are a Poste Italiane agency, too). It's also where you can post and pick up UPS and FedEx parcels, and serves as an Amazon Point. Not only that, but it's where you buy notarial stamps (which you affix to documents to render them official) and pay bills. And, before the state let go of the monopoly, it was where you went to buy salt (!) - for the sake of it he still has a few packages in the shelves, but these days if you want salt you just go to the supermarket...
I saw the new livery and I have to say it’s a big improvement over the current one!
Sounds like Italy's version of Japan's konbini.
Great job in providing extra content for this channel, Bear! Including the historian Thom! :)
We make a pretty good team!
In Spanish, “ce” makes an S sound. In Italian, “ce” and “ci” make a CH sound: CH-entrale or like CH in “ciao”.
Which is why I said “Bologna Chentrale”
@@Thom-TRAmy apologies, perhaps I am mishearing you at 2:39. Going back, I do hear you pronounce it “ch” earlier in the video. No harm intended. Keep up the great work. Among creators, you put way more effort into pronunciation than most.
A nice video definitely enjoyed and it's fun to see how you can get there by PT aka public transit
(Edit) this comment is from the trains are great second channel
Glad you liked it!
Here's a question: What dialect of Italian were those announcements made in? Florentine or Roman?
No clue lol
Italian here. Train announcements are always in Standard Italian so that everybody can understand them.
Italy also uses other languages, such as German, French and Slovenian (in border regions where these three languages are co-official), as well as English, in train announcements.
The languages you're referring to, however, are never employed in public settings.
forza titani!
Brilliant video, how does bear afford all this travel lol
@@teecefamilykent honestly I don’t know
Don't forget the proposed "Muslim Vatican" for Tirana
True
"SO HOT!" AND you're dressed for midwinter?
Perhaps the fact that they had just arrived at the airport might serve as a clue that they came from a place with a colder climate
@Thom-TRA That is why one dresses in layers when traveling.
@@brucealanwilson4121 and they did. Could you not see the zippers…
I don’t know why you’re acting like this is a major issue.
@@Thom-TRA They could have stripped off before they made the shot.
@@brucealanwilson4121 are you familiar with the phrase “making a mountain out of a molehill”
04:25, pedestrians walking on the cycle track. That makes me wild. What the f* are they doing on a cycle track?? Get off!!
As Dutchies they should know better as well 😂
You can clearly tell that man was just avoiding the crowds at the bus stop. I don’t like people in the bike lanes either. But damn, you all collectively have major anger issues.
all that walking to save 5 eruo ish? wow...
@@MyersJ2Original 13. Is it the math or the listening part that’s hard?
Also 25 minutes is a short walk for most people lol.
@@Thom-TRA Hi! Local from Rimini here: I can suggest a way more practical way to get from Bologna airport to the station: you just need to walk outside the parking lots and under the highway, and you can find a bus stop called "Birra" served by bus lines 81 and 91 that run directly to the station every 15 minutes. You can just use a regular urban ticket that costs 1.50€, which can also be paid using a contactless card directly on the bus.
There's also a direct and frequent private bus line from Bologna airport to Rimini station: the only reason why it makes sense is that the Marconi Express from Bologna station to the airport costs more than a regional train ticket from Rimini to Bologna.
It's "football", not "soccer".
@@mikemainer3009 it’s definitely soccer.
Different variants of English use different words for this sport. American English and a few others, like Canadian English use Soccer, while most others use Football like the rest of the world. So…
Dude, Thom is speaking American
Given where this was filmed, neither - it's "calcio"
It's "Association Football" so either the contraction, soccer, or football, are acceptible terms. Soccer is actually more useful because it's clear that you don't mean Rugby, American, Canadian, Australian, or any other kind of football.