How to Buy Train Tickets in Italy: A First-Timer’s Guide
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How to Buy Train Tickets in Italy: A First-Timer’s Guide

So, you’re finally doing it. You’ve booked your dream trip to Italy. You’re imagining the pasta, the history, the art, and then you try to plan travel between cities and hit a wall. Trenitalia, Italo, Frecciarossa, validating tickets. What does it all mean? It can feel overwhelming. It is much simpler than it looks. This…

How to Get From FCO Fiumicino Airport to Rome
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How to Get From FCO Fiumicino Airport to Rome

Are you flying in and wondering how to get from FCO Fiumicino airport to Rome Termini station?  We will look at all the ways you can easily get from FCO to Rome city center or termini. The Leonardo Da Vinci Airport (FCO), also known as Fiumicino, is located 35 km from downtown Rome and is…

Discover Switzerland by rail – Bernina and Glacier Express routes
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Discover Switzerland by rail – Bernina and Glacier Express routes

Basing myself in Chur, the oldest town in Switzerland, I took the Bernina Express to Tirano, Northern Italy, over the Landwasser Viaduct and through the Bernina Pass at 2200m where the Bernina glacier is. The train rarely travelled next to a road, so you really are in the stunning Swiss countryside, passing the flower-filled meadows…