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Sicily 2025

Milan

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Just passing through!

The train from Paris to Milan was very comfortable and the seven hour journey passed easily. The scenery through the Alps was spectacular and we enjoyed sharing it ‘live’ with our friend Gail in rural Ontario, it really is a small and easily connected world.

About an hour before we arrived in Milan we received a text from Franny, an old friend from Cambridge, by sheer chance she and her partner John were also heading towards Milan on a train from Brindisi with a one night stop before catching the train to Paris the next morning. Thanks to the wonders of WhatsApp and Google Maps we arranged to meet for dinner and  spent a couple of hours catching up on each others news.

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Autumn Rail Holiday 2025

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This year we are undertaking a rail based holiday to Italy and Spain.

We will start on the Cornish Riviera Sleeper to London, followed by a Eurostar trip to Paris. The rest of our stops will be Milan, Naples, Palermo, Syracuse, Messina, Rome, Barcelona, London and finally back to Penzance.

It’s not all trains as we will be travelling on two overnight ferries.

We have also pre-booked to see Leonardo’s Last Supper and The Vatican.

So if you want to follow our adventures we will start to blog on the 30th September.