Italy Rail

italy with cecil - 5 year wedding annicersary trip. fly to turkey for baltic rail after istanbul with shelb, up black sea coast, over through romania, down serbia, macedonia, bosnia herzegovina croatia, slovenia, italty again. many religious, spiritual ...

I moved to Europe with my then girlfriend to spend 6 or 7 months in Europe. We had rail passes, no work visas, little money, and copious amounts of confidence and naiveté to get us through it all. It was my first time to really leave the country ( ...

... ; So, although we've had an unusually warm early winter, Meghan and I thought we would sneak away to hopefully catch a bit of sunshine in Italy. Thanks to the beauty of Easyjet, Milan was only a EUR 100 flight away (total for 2).  From there, we had ...

... for wrinkles and carrying luggage).  When we arrived we proceeded to the ticket office, at which point I remembered that I'd forgotten our rail pass, and that if we went in these morons would charge us for 2 full price tickets.  Mark fail. So, ...

... see it in the eyes of my family that they were hard pressed to believe that they were actually sitting in Florence Italy having dinner on a sidewalk café with the cities nightlife flowing all around us. Sidewalk dining can be hazardous because the rail ...

... back down and eventually stops...we now think we're going to miss the connection...Deb is not having a good time...already hating Italy! We finally arrive with 7 minutes to get to our connecting train...carry the bags down a flight of stairs to leave the ...

... our experiences in Venice, traveling independently after the tour ended.   Departure Day We departed Boston 6:45pm for Rome Italy, flying Lufthansa via Munich (we booked it ourselves- not through Tauck). Never having flown this airline before, I was ...

... We were really glad to have taken the time off because we absolutely loved Rome. St. Peter's Basilica was particularly moving. Between Italy and France we feel like we have taken an art history course. In fact, that has been the best part about ...

Thursday December 1, 2011 This past weekend Megan and I challenged ourselves to a trip to Italy all by ourselves! We had an overnight train leaving from Vienna at 7:30pm, and had to leave Linz to catch it around 5pm. The Vienna train system is currently ...

... eaten all but 3 of the 24 she had brought on the plane to take back with her as gifts to her friends.  So I guess Italy doesn’t have a monopoly on gourmet food!  Next stop was the city of Ferrara, which was a bit out of the way but ...

... were on a  6 hour wine tasting tour to Abbadia Arenga- IL Poggio.  This wine maker is located in Torrenieri Montacino, Italy.   The old man giving us the goods on his wine, was entertaining and loved the young girls.  he was such ...

... on the top.) It really was a nice bus though. After only about a half hour of driving, we were already being stopped at the border of Italy to have our passports checked. Then we were on our way! By that time, we were already in the Alps...and boy was it ...

... had a nice British lady at the hotel recommend a trattoria, so we hope it is good! There are many tourists in this section of Italy. We found the bulk of toursists are of course, from the US, but also there are tons of Aussies and Germans here. More so ...

... in cyber cafes! We are now in beautiful Aix en Provence but thought you might like to see some images from our travels through Italy where we made an enthusiastic start on our quest to find the perfect lunch! From Rome we drove straight to Assisi, the ...

... awoke in the morning and headed out with Pui to the Vatican museum. First we swung by the post office so I could pick up my rail pass. Fortunately everything was in order.  I was going to mail some more stuff home but for 42 euro (about 70 bucks) ...

... 8221; of course, not one, but two showed up! I think it must have been a service road for the railway because they both had rail trans on the side of them. For one we had to back into a sort of space, and unfortunately, given the dangerously steep slope, ...

... was first 'near death' experience.  Of course, there was a railing, so I would not fall. up on top there was a small rail and I did take some pictures.  There was one more spiral stair to the top of the colannade, but I passed on that ...

... 5 villages of Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterossa al Mare are completely free of car traffic and reached only by rail, hiking and pedestrian ferry. And finally we had sunshine! We spent a short amount of time with our guide and then ...

... to check on the Easyjet situation we returned, all queued out, for sleeps. FACTS: 44. 15 is God. 45. Queuing HURTS. 46. Italy rail sucks! 47. Italians don't seem to believe in information booths. 48. Occaisionally on maps there are random flowers, they ...