Long Train Runnin'
Engineer
In a bizarre case of being in the right place at the right time I have another extended stopover in Cantina I have roughly 28 hours to play with in this case. I am landing at around 2pm on a Saturday and leaving at 8PM on Sunday. I have already booked my hotel to be 1 block from Catania Centrale station which seems to have a wide variety of rail transit available. Riding the very short Metro system seems easy enough, but I am looking for some advice on taking a slightly longer journey. I've spent a couple hours trying to google my through some of this stuff, but even seat61 is leaving me with a few questions. It seems like on trenitalia's website you can't book local trains more than 7 days in advance. I'm also having difficulty finding published timetables online. Most travel sites seem to try and steer you away from taking trains on the island as the busses are a faster way to travel, but obviously I'm in no rush, and aside from the cuisine the only other thing I want to do there is ride some trains. From what I can gather there are trains that leave every half hour to Messina although trenitalia's website doesn't match up to that. Does anyone have insight or know where I can find some more information?