SIENA, ITALY–Fifty-plus years ago, the gag definition of “mixed emotions” was watching your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your brand new car. I’ve got a new one: “Mixed emotions is traveling from Tirano to Siena on three different trains and comparing that experience to Amtrak.” Each of those Italian trains departed and…
I’ll do my best to keep posting over the next few days, but I’m really going to be keeping to a tight schedule. Tomorrow night I’ll be flying out of Boston on an overnight Icelandair flight to Reykjavik and then on to Zurich. From there, I’m catching a train to the Swiss town of…
Italy plans to introduce high-speed rail service between Milan and Rome next year, reducing the 360-mile trip to a flat three hours … that’s an average speed of 120 mph, including whatever stops will be made en route. The Italian state railway, Trenitalia, says they expect to take 60 percent of all traffic between those…