Italian Travelers:
Don't Miss Europe's Newest High-Speed TrainSource: forbes.com:
Last year I wrote about how advantageous Europe's sophisticated rail network is to travelers, especially with the myriad high-speed options available around the continent and across the English Channel. In many cases, you can travel between major cities faster, cheaper, more comfortably, and far more reliably by train than by air. Trains are rarely canceled, get delayed far less often than flights, baggage limits, and early arrival are not issues, security lines are (with a few exceptions) not an issue, and trains tend to connect city centers, while airports, especially in Europe, are often an hour away and a very expensive cab ride or cumbersome bus journey into the city itself. For travelers making several stops, especially leisure travelers on European vacations, additional savings can be had through the wide variety of passes available from Rail Europe, the leading North American retailer of official European train tickets, which offers both national and continent-wide passes in various classes and for different durations to suit almost any trip, with unlimited stops.