Pt2 - 17: FLORENCE, SIENA Rail is hands down the smartest mode of transport in this country. The seven and a half hour journey from Sorrento to Florence could so easily have been a biblical ordeal, but it wasn’t. The changes at Naples and Rome went remarkably smoothly and, apart from Tess almost having her arm amputated in the automatic ticket barrier in Roma Termini and the unedifying spectacle of a middle-aged couple sucking face like a pair of desperate juveniles for several hours on the run to Florence, the trip passed pleasantly enough. The further north we travelled the more picturesque the countryside became, verdant green farmland studded with palatial villas and impossibly romantic medieval walled towns. As always, Tess stayed with the gear at the station while I went off to hustle up the accommodation. Call me sensitive, but I swear the first dozen or so establishments quoted me outrageous prices just to get rid of me. It was such a trend that by the time I took t...
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