Oh-- so I tried to take a night bus to the downtown, but got on the one going away from, rather than towards the stazione.

The bus drove for a bit, stopped on the side of the highway, and the busdriver left. I'm sitting there for a while-- called Mel (and lost all my credits because I forgot it was an australian call), and eventually the driver came back.

I go up to him with this map and I say "Dov'e qui?" (where is here?) and he looks at my map for a moment and with his pen points to a space about five inches above my map.

Shit.

He then says something with the word "dov'e" in it and I'm not quite sure what he's talking about. He then repeats "Dov'e" and I say "statzione" and point to the station on the map.

He then thinks for a moment.... and starts the bus up.

He then did his return route 40 minutes ahead of schedule because of me. Awesome.

Amo italiani.