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Any flight from Australia to Italy is long, but Cathay Pacific provided a comfortable enough trip with plenty of movies to fill those long 21 hours in the air. A 5 hour transit at Hong Kong Airport gave a chance to stretch our legs and even stretch out flat to nap for a while. And then we landed in Milan on a crisp clear -6 degree morning with a beautiful fireball sun that rose in the sky and shone on the snow dusted ground. There is nothing more beautiful than a sunny, winter day, no matter how cold it is. We took a bus into town and filled in a few more hours at the magnificent, bustling central station of Milan while waiting for the train to take us to Florence.
The cold gradually seeped in through our layers of clothing and into our bones, so it was with relief we boarded our heated train and enjoyed the scenery on our way to Florence. In less than two hours we were there and settled in to the apartment which will be home for the next month.
The journey was oh so long, but also smooth and trouble free. Tired, but content, we slept like logs, preparing ourselves for good times ahead.
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