Italy

Today we covered many kilometres of Italy, by train and discovered the trains are pretty cheap but the taxis in Milan aren’t. It cost us 7e to travel by train from Verona to Milan (approx 75km / journey time 1hr … Read more

“Dear passengers, we would like to tell you the 10:10hrs to Verona Porta Nuova is about to depart. Anyone not travelling to Verona should disembark now!”Once my brain had processed the message played across the train’s PA system,  visions of … Read more

After breakfast (continental with no hot options – not that either of us would have had cooked), we ambled to the meeting point (KFC near the railway station) for our tour of Murano and Burano. As we’d deliberately left early … Read more

Flying out of Stansted with Ryan Air at 6am, approx 2 hours later we arrived at Venice airport. Safely through passport control, we collected our bags and enquired where the riverboat taxi departed. Perplexed to be told we needed the … Read more