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[quote=Anonymous]Just finishing up a trip to Lake Como, A ride on the Bernina Express with an overnight in Chur Switzerland and a five night stint in Venice with a day trip to Florence.

What I wish I had known before setting out:
I was worried that five nights was too long.  It really wasn’t. We stayed in a very residential normal neighborhood not far from the train station. It had a normal level of city crowd. It was great to have a spacious retreat near a grocery store and a bakery and “our” gelato shop.

Our day trip to Florence was unpleasant. It was very crowded. All of the tourists were in the same four square block area. We walked a ton. The Uffizi was like being herded through an art museum whereas our visit to the Academia in Venice was the exact opposite. The only thing we accomplished was checking Florence off our list. I have no desire to visit again.

The Bernina express was fun, but not better than other alpine rail trips I’ve made to Switzerland. You have to be a real rail fanatic to want to work so hard to go to that particular rail line. I wish I had just flown direct to Zurich, take a train to Maureen and then travelled on to Venice by plane or train as most convenient. Due to sheer luck, the day we flew over the alps from Zurich to Milan had much clearer skies so our view of the alps was much better than the mix of cloudy and rainy skies we had while riding the Bernina Express.

On Lake Como we stayed in Bellano. It was very nice. Wish we had stayed more than two nights but at the same time I don’t feel like we “needed” to.

I had planned for us to travel via rail to Lake Como from Milan on our day of arrival. Given our overnight flight with two children we were not able to do this. I wish we had either reserved a room at the airport hotel in Milan or arranged a car transfer to Lake Como and simply passed out in the back seat.

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