Travel from Augusta to Ortigia

Hello again,

I am travelling to Varenna from Milan central train station. I have a choice to both milan airports(LIN and MXP). I know MXP has great connection directly to train station but takes longer since it is far. LIN is near from milan train station but I don't see direct train or shuttle to milan train station. Am I missing anything or for sure there is no direct train/shuttle from LIN to milan central station? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys,

I am thinking whether it is worth trying visiting Syracuse this July or leave it for next year (2022).

I would fly from Toronto, Canada to Rome and then take a train to Syracuse.

Would you be helpful with a few questions?

1) Would Sicily or Syracuse allow for vaccinated foreign tourists visits starting in July?

2) I checked train schedule from Rome Termini to Syracuse (italiarail), and there are no connections at the beginning of July (10-12), while there are available trains to book in August.

Are there any restrictions for train transportation in July vs August?

3) Would you expect that crowds are less this year, or it is business as usual?

Thanks.

I was wondering if anyone knows when the Intercity train schedule is released for the end of September, I have searched the forum, and couldn't find a definitive answer. We are travelling from Montepulciano and Naples, and it is the only train journey that I am concerned about making. There is a regionale train from Montepulciano to Rome and then to Naples, but the transfer time is only 11 minutes, and I think that would really be cutting it too close for my comfort. There are a few IC trains in August that would work, do they continue these trains into/through September? Thank you for your help!

Due to the unique current offerings airline wise we have 6 nights/7 days in Sicily as part of a broader trip. We fly into Catania midday day 1, and our departure is from Palermo at 8pm, offering a near full-day in Palermo on day 7 (with bags safely stored with our hotel)

My dilemma is allocating the 6th night.

So far we’ve settled on 2 nights in Ortigia, 2 in Taormina, 1 in Palermo. For our 6th night I cannot determine if we should devote 3 nights to Ortigia as our base to have more time for places such as Noto etc or place a 2nd night to Palermo to have 2 full nights between transfers.

My current thinking if 3/2/1 is arrive Catania middday day 1, head to Ortigia and spend afternoon/evening there.

Day 2 - visit Noto, Ragusa, Marzememi or so one (1-2 of these).

Day 3 - visit another couple of places

Day 4- drive to Taormina, staying there.

Day 5 - visit Etna or gorges etc

Day 6 - to Palermo, spending part of the day in Cefalu

Day 7 - Palermo till leave for our flight late in day.

Is this a wise itinerary or should we forego the 2nd day of exploring behind Syracuse in favor of 2 nights based in Palermo?

Hello - we are staying in Rome and Venice and would like to take a short day trip to Pisa on the way. Traveling with luggage is obviously the problem. Ideally, the thought is to take the train from Rome to Pisa, store our luggage SAFELY at the train station, see the leaning tower, have lunch, then come back to the station to retrieve our luggage and jump on a train to Venice. All sounds good in theory… but is there actually a safe, secure place to store our luggage while we do the Pisa day exploring?

Thanks in advance!

Hi we did the Train Trip back in 2017 but unfortunately unable to see a lot as we left late out of Milan due to accident on the track.

Look for info on what station is the border between Italy and Switzerland as also finally when things get back to normal we love to redo this again but this time looking at two or three stops along the way. Any recommendations on which town to stop in.

Zug Postplatz, Fluelen, Lugano, Como S Giovanni and any others worth stop over night at along the way.

Cheers

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I’ve read and seen that car rental places are closed on Sundays in Bolzano. We will be taking a train from Florence to Bolzano - or at least we had planned to. And then drive to our hotel in Badia BZ. What would you guys recommend to do? We can’t get the car on Monday because that’s our wedding day. Is there another city close by where the train station is near? Where we would be able to rent a car on a Sunday?

TIA

Experts flying into Rome at 745am arrival. then and catching a Trenitalia to Vernazza question. Given these uncertain time and capacity on train It is a Friday in September should I buy the tickets in advance now? The train departure would be at Noon which is 4 hours after my arrival and should give me more than amble time to travel to Termini to get the train. Thoughts?

Hi,

I am trying to buy tickets on the high speed train from Rome to Florence in late November, but it appears as though they aren't running. I can buy a ticket for a high speed train up until November 2, but after that date, all of the non-stop options are either 3h 45 mins or just over 4 hours. Does anyone know why this is the case? Are high speed trains not running in after October? Is this a COVID thing? Am I trying to buy my tickets too early? Thanks!

We are arriving at Florence on Sunday 9/22 and hope to take a bus to Siena that afternoon. We can't find a bus schedule and we understand that buses do not run very frequently on Sundays. Does anyone have information on bus schedules on Sunday afternoons.? Should we take a train instead of a bus and would you suggest that we reserve online our train ticket. We prefer a bus but are concerned since Sunday may be a problem with buses not running frequently.