
Our journey to Milan started off with the romantic notion of travelling by train through the Alps into the fashion capital of the world. However, Trenitalia (Italy's version of National Rail) found it quite amusing to send us a carriage train that perhaps last ran in the 70's that contained stuffy 6-seater compartments where the seat numbers no longer corresponded to the boarding pass and it was someone's job to put post-it notes an all the windows to re-number the seating - austerity at its finest moment!