While British Rail has become famous for 'Minding the Gap', Italian rail doesn't worry anywhere near as much.Here there is no concern about 'a gap' - getting down from the train is a drop of nearly a metre and a gap of around 20cm.
Equally intriguing are these signs along the platforms. I am not quite sure if the signs only apply to people who are already one legged or that you will end up one legged if you dare disobey.
In every Italian railway station is an automatic ticket machine that uses recorded voice messages. The woman giving instruction speaks good, but not perfect English that is heavily accented. In the Italian fashion she is inclined to end English words with a vowel so instead of 'Insert your card' you get 'Inserta your carda'. I just loved buying tickets just to hear her talk. She was the highlight of Italian train travel.
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