Ferry from Bari, Italy to Patras, Greece

here I am on a boat sailing from Bari, in southern Italy, to Patras, Greece. It feels magical, and lucie and I are so excited. We did a great job traveling and figuring out a lot of problems today. Neither of us thought with all the complications that arose that we would actually be sleeping on this boat tonight, but nevertheless, here we are. Every leg of the long journey today was close, but it all worked out. Neither of us have ever been on a boat for this long. We got on in the rain, the first rainy day we've had since being here. The whole train ride was very taxing...Italian trains are decidedly a lot less organized than Swiss or French trains. First we got to the Rome Termini station with plenty of time to make our reservation, then no one would help us when we couldn't actually find the train we were planning on getting on. (We did talk to 2 very unhelpful Information people) Then, we waited in the reservation line twice, 40 minutes each time, to talk to the same very incompetent woman who was so impressed when, after our first train was already full so we couldn't make a reservation, we actually figured out another route that would work and get us to Bari to the ferry to Greece by 16:00, to avoid staying in Rome an extra day. (We asked her to tell us if there was another route the first time we waited in the line, and she said there was nothing, so we just figured it out for ourselves.) She proceeded to have a big computer glitch as she was processing our tickets and almost made us miss the train we did make a reservation for...erg. Sometimes you really must take matters into your own hands and not depend on the people whose jobs it is to help you, especially if they don't seem to know what they're doing. Actually no one checked any of our tickets the whole day and we were on 3 or 4 different trains.. I really can't complain..my whole journey today-3 trains, a very sketchy taxi ride that fortunately occurred with a few other people and now an overnight ferry, coupled with my Eurail pass, was a whole 42 euros. We went across Italy and are now crossing the sea to Greece. Waking up at 5:45 to see the sunrise. A Titanic-themed photo shoot may commence afterword.