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Lake Como/Lago di Como

We arrived in Milan in the evening after a nearly six-hour train ride from Naples Centrale with a stop in Rome to change trains. Because we were lax with our planning, we missed the local train to Como and had not arranged for a private car to take us to our hotel Borgo le Terrazze

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Amalfi Coast

The train ride from Roma Termini to Naples Centrale station was about an hour long. We left Rome in the morning so that we would have enough travel time to get through the mountains and onto the coast. Once in Naples, we negotiated a taxi to take us to the coast. Our taxi driver spoke

colosseum

Rome/Roma

The majority of our Italy trip was spent in Rome. When we were planning our trip, Rome had the most sites/attractions that we wanted to visit. Day 1 From Florence we took a high-speed train from Santa Maria Novella train station to Roma Tiburtina station. It was about a one and a half our trip.

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Florence/Firenze

From Venice, we took a high-speed train to Florence. The train ride was about two and a half hours (Santa Lucia to Santa Maria Novella). Then we took a very short taxi ride to our hotel, Granduomo. We walked around in circles a few times looking for the entrance to the hotel. The entrance was

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Venice/Venezia

The train ride from Milan to Venice was about two and a half hours, plenty of time to catch a nap. Train travel in Europe is a completely different experience from the train travel in the U.S. You have to make sure you are sitting in the correct seat number as your ticket indicates. Most

Milan/Milano

We had arrived in Milan. I chose to fly into Milan Linate airport instead of Milan Malpensa (MXP) to avoid an additional connecting flight. At Linate airport, we headed for customs. We waited in the line for the international arrivals. A customs worked motioned for us to follow her. Sure! She brought us past the

CDG

We had a short layover in Paris early in the morning. Really, we had just enough time to sleepily walk from our arrival gate to our departure gate. Along the way, we had to stop and ogle all the goodies in the few shops that were starting to open. At the time, Deanna loved Kinder

JFK

Hanging out in NYC We rarely find deals for flights to Europe from Florida. Most of the deals are JFK to Europe. No problem. We usually fly JetBlue to the Northeast and never had problems finding flights up that way. Our flight from Florida got into JFK late two nights before our flight to Europe.

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Italy – March 2017

Our first international trip as a family!!!