Roman Exidus Part Deux

So, Part I was pretty long for a blog post, so I'll wrap up. The short ending to a long story is this:

We made it to the airport just fine. About 35, 40 minutes by bus. Once we arrived, it was another 20 minutes to take the shuttle to the rental place. (Which, after we waited for the next shuttle to drive us to the rental place, we discovered it was a 10 minute walk, at most).

Anyways. We make it finally. Go to the counter, present ID. Asked for a credit card. We have our Visa Check cards. We're told that is not a credit card. It's a debit card. Not accepted. And that is it. Neither of us have a credit card on hand. No credit card, no car. There are 6 other car rental agencies there and only two will accept debit, one of which has no cars. The other charges about 4 times what our reservation was.

In short. After all that, no car for us. Back to the terminal, back on the bus we had spent our morning tracking down, and right back to Rome, exactly where we had started. It turned out we were taking a train out of Rome after all.