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If you want to go to Padova by bus after your main tournament match, you have to go to a tobacconist store before you start your game in the morning and buy the ticket. This is because if you are not going to force your opponent or yourself to resign within less than one hour, you'll find all the shops are closed at Siesta time.
One ticket to Padova costs 2.700 Lire; if you plan to come back to Abano, just buy two of them. A bus stop can be found in front of the hotel Alexander close to the Piazza Colombo on the hotel’s side of the street.
Don’t bother with the timetable at “The Wall”, especially the legend “Via Mandria” on. It is of no importance as it refers to the route the buses take between Abano and Padova. Just wait some 10-20 minutes for the next orange bus with an A, M or T on it (these lines are also called “Linea Colli”) and get off the bus in the centre of Padova or at the train station.
Last time we were in Padova we wanted to catch the bus back somewhere in the centre. When we had just come around a corner we saw a bus right before us, waiting at a traffic light. We waved at the driver and he let us enter at once even without a bus stop. At the next regular bus stop several tourists entered the bus and tried to buy a ticket from the driver. He explained to them that they had to buy tickets at a tobacconist and stopped at the next one waiting several minutes until everyone had bought their tickets and re-entered the bus.
I have also heard of some go players who couldn’t buy tickets in Padova because it was too late in the evening, who were allowed to stay on the bus even without a ticket.
All this would be almost impossible in Germany I guess.
(Burghard Landskron)
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