honeymoon

Arrived safely in Firenze (Florence)! Found our room and WHAT A VIEW!!!! Yes, this picture is the view from our bed! There is no wifi in this place so blog post will be short and sweet later tonight after dinner. Maybe I’ll find some free wifi somewhere and you’ll get your fixes! Ciao!

Our second visit here. The first was the fateful night of the dishonourable hotel in Arona! I’m pleased to report that our second visit is MUCH less stressful. We arrived on time. Bought our seat reservations for €10 each (compulsory, even with our global pass InterRail ticket). And boarded our “FrecciaRossa” (Red Arrow) Italian Eurostar train bound for Florence. Which even left on time!!! A much swankier train this. Really nice inside – it even has air conditioning! We are travelling 307km

The view from bed this morning. Not bad really… Poschiavo will be swapped for Florence this evening.

We sprinted across the station and got to our train just as the doors *clicked* and locked shut.

Lunch in Arth-Goldau, Switzerland as we await our 15:50 ICE to Milan in preparation for Sundays Grand Prix!! A late lunch as we’ve been awake since 5:30 this morning to get the first train up Jungfraujoch. Awesome until we got to the top where it was cloudy! The altitude didn’t agree with Alex, he went as white as a sheet and almost collapsed due to the 11,700ft worth of air thinness. We headed back down the mountain on the next train and at about 8,000ft colour was restored to his cheeks and

If you ever get chance to take the Glacier Express or anything along that route with the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, do it. A sensationally beautiful route from start to finish.

Made it as far as Geneva today. Just the evening ferry across the lake to Yvoire next!

Just enjoying some hospitality in Norfolk (and some left over Wedding Champagne!). Only tomorrow left to get the final bits and bobs ready for Wednesday flight to Lyon! Now, back to the Champagne….