Villa d’Este is in the town of Tivoli. I had used Google maps to plot out the walking directions from the train station. We followed the directions, then must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, the street names didn’t match where I thought we were on the map. So I enabled the GPS. Oops, we were not where I thought we were so we adjusted course and continued. We get to the destination, but that’s not the entrance, it’s just a fence at the back of the villa. So we kept going. I don’t know how many times we doubled back, but we eventually found the entrance. It took an hour and a half to get from the train station to the villa. When we left the villa at the end of our tour, it only took 15 minutes to make it back to the train station. We wanted to wander through the town anyway, and probably wouldn’t have seen so much of it if we hadn’t gotten lost. So it’s all good in the end. And, we stopped in some little shop for a sandwich for lunch and got a very tasty small pizza, about 6 or 7 inches in diameter, folded in half like a sandwich. Not near the tourist area by the villa, so instead of paying €5 each, we paid €2 total.
