FIRST CLASS TRAIN TO SWITZERLAND (traveling Europe in 2021)

Executive class is crazy. There is a ridiculous amount of space.

It wouldn't be a true travel day without at least one sprint.

So we are in Switzerland. I think we're supposed to catch a bus from here, but our train's 30 minutes late and that bus is already gone. It's like we've never done this before.

Tomorrow morning, we are hopping on a first class train to Switzerland. But it just felt so wrong to leave our favorite place in the world without at least giving you a glimpse of what we've been up to for the past week.

If you don't really care what we've been doing for the last week and you just came for the trains, you can Skip to the 4 1/2 minute mark.

Our friends Bob and Gina live on a beautiful vineyard in Italy. This has been the place over the past few years that we've come to rest, relax, and recharge. Wow. Here's what our daily routine has been for the last eight days. I think you'll see why we love this place so much.

I've probably walked out that door over a hundred times in the past three years. And this view never gets old.

Cup number two.

You know it's cup number two because she's not in bed. We've actually been really productive this week, but it almost doesn't even feel like work when you're sitting somewhere this beautiful. It kind of feels like we're cheating life right now.

For lunch, Gina always cooks us something delicious. But instead, I'm giving her a little break today. And I am cooking one of my favorite things. Coconut curry chickpea.

Beautifulness. Going out for Dito. I'm scared. It's perfect. Really?

Good job, Kara.

After lunch, we typically come up with an excuse to go take a ride on the vet spot. Most of the time, that excuse is to get gelato.

Grazia.

Don't melt.

I had the ball stressing me out.

You see how bad my farmer's skin is? We haven't exactly been making the healthiest eating decisions this week, so we've been trying to work out every afternoon, you know, just to, like, make sure we feel a little better. I'm not really feeling much better about this.

Such a weird noise.

You can get my side profile. Do it, Nate.

Push those hips right back towards the wall behind you.

Move that leg. Now bring it up.

5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.

I think she's worried about.

Go ahead.

I'm currently obsessed with this girl named Lindsey. She has a workout YouTube channel called Nourish. Move, love. Normally, I Do them while n goes on a run. But today I'd rather run 10 miles.

Than do that again. I'm working on my inner thighs. So many people say, oh, you have such nice inner thighs.

Shortly before the sunset, Bob whips up some Italian cocktails, and we slowly sip on those as we watch the sun disappear behind the mountain. Chin chin. Cheers. Thank you. Obviously, we love it here because of the delicious food and wine and the views, but you can find all of those things in a lot of other places, too. The reason we keep coming back here is because of the people. We were complete strangers a few years ago, but now Bob and Gina are like family to us, and we lovingly refer to them as our Italian parents, who we love so much. Maybe we'll tell that full story one day.

So, yeah, some version of that is what we've done every single day for the past week. It is always so hard to pull ourselves away from this place. But yesterday I booked tickets, and tomorrow we leave.

Good morning. Today we are hopefully going to Switzerland. I say hopefully because as countries start to open up to tourists, a lot of stuff is changing really quickly, especially in terms of the documentation you need to get into another country. So yesterday I filled out a Swiss entry form. I also have my CDC vaccination card, which shows that I'm fully vaccinated. And I think those two things should be enough to get us into the country. We'll see.

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This is our first of three trains today and so far everything has gone super smoothly. We got our temperature checked before we got on the train and now we're on our way to Bologna. From Bologna we'll connect to another train that'll take us to Milan and then from there we'll connect to our final train that'll take us to Interlock in. The really fun thing about today's journey is we're riding in three different classes. This is business class. Then we'll upgrade to executive class. And then finally we'll try out Swiss first.

What in the world? They gave us goodie bags. I mean, it's heavy. We have orange juice, almonds, sesame crackers, chocolate chip cookies, bubbly water, regular water, alcohol wipe, and a health and safety kit. That was very nice.

This train is so much fancier than I thought it was going to be. The seats are giant comfortable. There are outlets free, fast W and this is the lowest of the three classes that we're taking today. So it's just gonna get better from here. We are now arriving on time in Bologna Centrale. Thank you for traveling with Trenitalia.

Oh my goodness. Sorry. Two and a half hours later, we have arrived in Bologna.

We have 20 minutes to catch our next train.

This is the one that's taking us to Milan. It's the one I've been most excited about.

It wouldn't be a true travel day without at least one sprint to catch something.

There's an entire conference center in executive class.

This is crazy. There's so much today.

Consecutive class is crazy. This is basically equivalent to business class in an airplane, except the seat doesn't lay all the way flat. It's like they put eight recliners in a train car and then a conference room on the back half. In all honesty, it's kind of ridiculous that we paid for these tickets because it cost €150 for a one hour train ride from Bologna to Milan.

There's even buttons for the windows.

Let's see what's in here. Chocolate chip cookie, muffin, croissant, cold bubbly water. It's like the Italian version of a Fig Newton. An entire club, sandw and orange juice. This is so fun and with a nice view.

The only reason I'm a little disappointed right now is because the pictures that I saw online, the train was gold. But this Is not bad. I still cannot get over the fact that there is a conference room on a train. I mean, I guess if you have a really important business meeting that can't wait until you get to your destination, this is where you have it.

Ciao.

We don't belong up here, do we?

This is one of the most beautiful train stations I've ever seen.

Let's go check out the restroom.

Not bad.

This feels exactly like an airplane bathroom. Maybe a little bit bigger. Water, soap, hand dryer, hand sanitizer, food, knives. Should have brought my razor. Gosh, it's been so long since I've done a bathroom tour on a mode of transportation. Bathroom tour.

Thanks.

Want to show the little tear?

Wow.

By way too quickly.

Bye. Executive class.

We're back. We made it to Milan.

Okay, we have five hours before we have to catch our next train, so we're gonna go put our bags in storage and try to make the most of our time here.

Yeah, keep us.

I think, number two.

So because we booked an executive ticket, we have access to this fancy lounge with free food and snacks. So I'm gonna enjoy this double espresso before we head into the city.

Okay, we've told this story before, so I won't go into too many details, but the first time Nate and I ever stepped inside of Europe was in Milan. And I just remember coming up into this train station and being in total awe of just how Europe. And this is just the train station. We have very fond memories here. I'm very excited.

All right, we're ready to go.

This is so fun.

So picture this. It's our first time in Europe. The only place we've been so far is the airport and the train station. So our first time coming up onto the streets, this is what we see. How good is that?

It's even better than I remember.

It's probably why we fell in love with travel. Coming up into the square with the Duomo, it's like all of your European dreams come true instantly.

And it's why we fell in love with Italy.

It feels so good to be back.

This is such a beautiful city. I didn't realize that I was going to be this happy to be back here.

I knew it was amazing the first time we came, but, like, there was so much newness.

It was the first place we ever.

Visited, of course, but it's actually amazing.

I can't remember why you're supposed to put your heel in the bull's crotch, but it's a thing to do here.

I cannot believe for My last meal in Italy, I'm not getting pasta. Wow, that was fast. That's it. Wow, indeed. But in Milan, you're supposed to get risotto.

The saffron. This one has lemon prosecco and mint, which sounds weird and wonderful at the exact same time.

Hot.

So good.

This is absolutely incredible.

I'm so happy.

This is crazy. Italy has only recently opened back up to tourists, and when we were in Rome last week, it felt like we practically had the place all to ourselves. I was hoping that would be the case here in Milan today, and we are one of a handful of tourists walking around this church right now.

Last time we were in Milan, I was way too cheap to pay for tickets to go to the top of the duomo. It is €20 to take a lift to the top, but it's only 15 to take the stairs. So we're getting a little exercise and saving €5.

It's not as cheap as it used be to me. We still do.

Oh, we made it. Wow.

This is actually pretty great. If you're only going to be in Milan once, it's worth paying to go on the roof.

Totally.

All of these ornate structures on the roof are probably the most impressive part of the church anyway. And so to be able to be up here, close to them and to get some incredible views of the city. Maybe I was wrong the first time. Yeah, I mean, you pretty much have access to the entire top of the church when you're up here. Also, just look how many people are up here with us right now.

Never thought I'd do that on top of a church. All right, we have one hour till our train leaves, so we will see you at the train station. All right, let's go to Switzerland.

Last train of the day. Let's hope we have all the documents we need to get into Switzerland.

Ladies and gentlemen, please note that masks must be worn on public transport. So, not complaining, but if we're comparing the three trains we've been on today, Swiss first class is probably the least impressive of the three. But I do like the setup and how we get to sit at this table across from each other.

So all the food was included in our Italian train tickets, but the Swiss train has a separate separate restaurant car, which is closed. So the only option is to buy snacks and bring them back to your seat.

Good thing I still have plenty of leftover snacks for our first two drinks.

It's cold.

So we are in Switzerland. And a couple interesting things about that train ride. None of our documents got checked. Nothing.

We're just here to look at our ticket.

Also, we are not an interlocket. I took a closer look at our ticket and the train only takes us to spiest speed.

And I think we're supposed to catch a bus from here, but our train's 30 minutes late and that bus is already gone. And it's like we've never done this before.

Oh, this train has some interesting mood lights.

I love Switzerland. The train pulled up, the train guy got off and we were like, what do we do? Our bus isn't here. And he was like, you're going to interlocking. And we were like, yeah. And he was like, this is the train to interlocking. Get on. Then he put my bag on here and here we are.

I don't know if that's how it's actually supposed to work or if the guy was just really nice, but we waited like two minutes and now we're going to where we need to be.

Bye speeds. Oh, gosh.

How am I lift?

Beautiful.

Oh, I think the day's starting to catch up with me. Nobody checked our tickets, so still unconfirmed whether or not we were supposed to be on that train or not. But we're almost there. Just a short walk to the hotel. Oh, they're all about their stars. They are a four star hotel.

Not bad. Not bad.

A we have little chocolates on the bed. Swiss chocolate. We have a balcony.

Oh, wow. This is actually really cool.

It's so cool.

It is 10:30. We have to go to sleep right now because tomorrow starts what can only be described as an insane 48 hours that one of us is excited about and the other's not. Yeah, it's gonna be fun.

No, no, no, no, no. The turtles hit me with the name little bugs today.

Get in my belly.