Holy smokes this time went by quickly! It seemed that I was able to keep up the blog pretty easily. And then. Florence.   It isn’t a huge city with just over 300,000 residents, but is it ever LARGE! We’d just come from Interlaken, Switzerland (with a brief stop in Milan, as I groused about […]

Easy day today; up at 4:45 to catch the 6:10 train from Milan to Florence (or Firenze!) Unbelievably fast train ride. We were going over 295 kph at one point, which I figured out to be about 183 mph!

The day was a debacle from the get-go. You can see from Sherry’s blog, that last night (Thursday) was a tough, short-sleep night, regularly interrupted. But it got worse. It should have been easy. We had our tickets for the train to Milano Centrale, then the connections in Milan for our ride to Florence. But