Names

I still haven’t figured out why European cities have such different names in different languages. It makes trip planning unnecessarily complicated. In Nice I bought a train ticket to Ventmille not sure if it would be arriving at the same station as Ventimigilia in Italy where I needed to catch the next train. When I bought the ticket from Vienna (Wien) to Venice (Venezia) I learned that it is Venedig in German. The worst was when I tried to buy a ticket from Genova to Monaco while I was in Monterossa. There was some confusion as to where I wanted to go after I told the lady Monaco. Eventually she said “Monte-Carlo?” and it was resolved. I found out later that Munich (Munchen in German) is Monaco in Italian. Not confusing at all.