Apologies if the above commentaries have a touch of duplication in them. We're ready to get started with the main feature now and we will begin sedately on the streets of Trieste, trying to find a coffee that actually pleased me and checking out the churches and monuments, including an amazing Serbian cathedral-like edifice, which somehow reminded me of churches in Russia. Then I fly with Air Dolomiti on to Frankfurt, this with the EN flight number code. In the city of Mainz I try not to get legless again in the various beer cellars and Weinstuben. After an excellent stay at the Hilton Mainz, the adventure continues with Deutsche Bahn! Will they get me to my destination? Or won't they?