2011.06.28 – Paris (FR) \u2013 Milan (IT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we had an early train to catch, we woke up at 5am and quickly packed up. We took a taxi to the Gare de Lyon and had some coffee before boarding our train. We enjoyed the train ride on our first regular train in Europe. We had a stop-over for a few hours in Geneva, Switzerland. We stored our luggage at the train station before exploring a bit of the town. We scrambled somewhat to exchange some Swiss euros. We had lunch at a cafe after making sure they would accept credit cards. We walked back to the train station along the waterfront promenade. We really enjoyed the beautiful views along the lake including the ducks paddling in the water. Back on the train, we made our way to Milan. Upon our arrival at the train station, we lined-up at the service counter in the hope of reserving our train tickets for our next itinerary destination – Florence. While waiting, we were informed by a local that we could make our seat reservations through the automatic ticket machines. We quickly reserved our tickets for Florence for the next afternoon. We took a taxi to our reserved hotel but we were surprised that they did not have our reservation. We realized that we had made our reservation for the following month. Fortunately, the hotel had a quadruple room available for us. Later, we took the metro to a popular restaurant area where we had our evening meal beside a canal. Unfortunately the mosquitoes appeared more famish than the tourists. After our meal, we took a stroll in the area with the hope of locating an ATM. Victoria and I had some Nutela and banana crepes similar to those we had in Thailand last December. We took the metro back to our hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n
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