{"id":252,"date":"2013-08-29T09:09:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-08-29T09:09:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T14:09:41","slug":"canicus-in-gaulia-et-italia-day-20-19-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"Canicus in Gaulia et Italia: Day 20 (19 July 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on July 19, 2012 by Canicus<\/em><\/p>\n

Transition from Lyon to Rome<\/b><\/p>\n

All Europe is populated by C Programmers. Thus the first floor is Floor 0. This works out fairly rationally because it means that if there is a basement, it will be Floor -1; if there is a subbasement it will be -2. But all this means that the second floor (the one above the ground floor) is Floor 1; and the third floor is floor 2.<\/p>\n

Now, in case you are confused, consider the hotel where I stayed in Lyon. The first (ground) Floor is 0. (There was a basement where taxis lurked, but you could not access it by elevator \u2014 supposedly that would be -1.) Now the hotel lobby was not on the ground floor \u2014 Floor 0; you had to take an elevator to the second floor, Floor 1, to get to the lobby.<\/p>\n

But the hotel elevators were on this second floor, but those elevators designated the second floor as Floor 0. My hotel room was located on Floor 3 \u2014 that being the fifth floor of the building. To get to ground level I had to take the hotel elevator to Floor 0, transfer to another elevator and, because as far as that elevator was concerned I was on the second floor (1), I had to take it to the first floor (0).<\/p>\n

Nothing much to report. I packed in the morning \u2014 pretty much for the last time. It was a short walk to Gare Part-Dieu<\/em> to catch the Rh\u00f4nexpress<\/em> to A\u00e9roport Lyon Saint-Exup\u00e9ry<\/em>. It is an hour 30 minute flight to Aeroporto Internazionale Leonardo da Vinci di Fiumicino<\/em> (Rome\u2019s major airport).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m spending the night in the Hilton Rome Airport. Too expensive and, obviously, the most \u201cAmerican\u201d hotel this trip. But I figured that taking the Leonardo Express from Fiumicino to Rome, spending one night in a cheap hotel, being sure to wake early enough to take the Leonardo Express back to the airport to catch an 11 AM flight to the U.S. would end up being a bigger mess and not a lot cheaper.<\/p>\n

I figure I have to check out of the hotel by 8 AM (instead of 7 AM had I stayed in Rome) in order to find where in which terminal I need to be by 9 to get the boarding pass, check my bag, go through security and find my gate.<\/p>\n

Canicus Modius<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on July 19, 2012 by Canicus Transition from Lyon to Rome All Europe is populated by C Programmers. Thus the first floor is Floor 0. This works out fairly rationally because it means that if there is a basement, it will be Floor -1; if there is a subbasement it will be -2. … Continue reading Canicus in Gaulia et Italia: Day 20 (19 July 2012)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canicusmodius.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}