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Lake Como

A beautiful stay in Lake Como

After a short train ride from Milan we disembarked at the Varenna Esino station and walked the 5 min to our AirBnb. Once settled in we walked a short distance towards the wharf area and found ourselves face to face with the beautiful Lake Como and its crystal-clear and tranquil …

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Seeing Da Vinci’s Last Supper

We boarded the morning train in Zermatt and, after two train changes, and a lengthy tunnel (the Simplon Tunnel), soon found ourselves en route to Italy (with Xander completing the school homework that he had been sent for the trip). However as we crossed the border and arrived at Domodossola, …

When in Rome…

A classical saying is that all roads lead to Rome… and here we are! Suz has been to Rome before, but that was a good 8 years ago so she was looking forward to revisiting sites, and seeing new ones… I’ve never been here, so it was all definately new …

The beauty of Cinque Terre

We left Florence and caught a train that took us to La Spezia, here we changed to a local train and 8 min later the train arrived at our destination, Riomaggiore. Riomaggiore is the first of five villages that make up the Cinque Terre, a Unesco World Heritage site, national …

A taste of Tuscany!

After a few days in Venice it was now time to move on to our next stop in Italy, Florence. We caught the train from Venice and three hours later we arrived in Florence, the train was fast, comfortable and had power outlets where we could keep our computer connected …

Romantic Venice!

Leaving Amsterdam we flew with Lufthansa to Munich and then we were supposed to change to another plane which would take us to Venice. We were at the airport with plenty of time to spare (as always) but the plane was late and then it took forever before we took …