23 Jul 2023
Arrived at 3pm, just missed train to Perugia had to wait until next one at 5pm.
Just recovering from a bad attack of sciatica.
Very hard to find a seat to wait, rest of party found somewhere for lunch as plenty of shops and eateries. Platform number 1–26 so looked not far to walk when platform number came up on board, can’t remember if it was 1b or 1c when it showed 15 mins before train was due to leave.
We walked (well I hobbled) down to platform 1 and there was then an arrow pointing down the platform to the platform we needed. No kidding it was half a mile away, even had 800 mertes 600 metres 400metres signs on the wall. The strongest of our party of 5 walked fast got to the train last carriage and held to door open till we all got there, so train not happy being 3 mins late leaving.
It was the same coming back, train pulled into same platform, I was worse with my back/leg etc, so wife went looking for a wheel chair, found a couple, but station personel would not let wife take one, said they have to be booked 1 hour in advance, wife agrued my case but he was not having this, so I had this long walk back to concourse. I had to walk a few yards then rest on my suit case and so on, took me half an hour to get me to concourse.
We tried to complain to this official looking woman in uniform but she just ignored us and walked off. But would not have been a problemif train pulled into concourse platforms 1 – 25 and gave me a wheel chair.