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here’s my story of Italy.

We checked out of the hotel and the cabbie said we could take our luggage to the train station. It was about 9:30 AM and our train was 10 PM

He told us the train workers were on strike. I asked why.

Because two days before there was a bomb threat at the station in Milan. This was Sunday and there was big futbol game on TV.

At the station we learned the employees were afraid there was a bomb in Rome, so they walked out and apparently by midnight, after the game, the threat would be over.

We went back at 9:30 PM and our 10 was on time. They came back two hours early.

We tried to get more information, but the two info booths were staffed by people who didn’t speak English. I estimated half the travelers on the platforms spoke English.

In France, when they strike they may burn down the building or set a bomb to go off of the cops arrest them.

We did run into a strike at the arch de triomphe for one day, which no one could explain.