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                <title>Train from Milan to Basel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The scenery along this train route is spectacular, via Lakes Como, Lugano, Lucerne and through beautiful alpine valleys.]]></description>
                
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                <title>St Gotthard Swiss Q Hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This hotel is right by the main railway station. The staff are very pleasant. The rooms are clean and comfortable and have good sound insulation. Buffet breakfast is very good]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Overnight SNAV Ferry from Palermo to Naples</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The ferry is very convenient, leaving at 8 and arriving at 7. There's a free shuttle to the boat from the port entrance. It has a decent buffet restaurant and bar and the staff are pleasant.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Morgantina, near Aidone</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This ancient Greek city is beautiful and atmospheric. It's quite extensive and has good information boards with English to help you with interpretation of the buildings. Around the agora you get a really good feel for how it must have been before it was abandoned 2000 years ago. <br>It was deserted when we were there, perhaps it's busier in the spring/autumn when it isn't so hot but I got the feeling they're never busy. <br>Make sure you take plenty of water, there's nowhere to buy refreshments nearby. If you've got plenty of stamina you could combine this with the villa del casale mosaics for a heavy day's sightseeing.<br>The guide's say you should go to the museum in Aidone to get a good introduction to the site, but it's very difficult to find and unless you have good Italian you won't learn a great deal. One of the five staff in the empty museum firmly told me, with a shake of her finger, that there was no information in English, but you could go just to interrupt their gossip!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Morgantina, near Aidone</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This ancient Greek city is beautiful and atmospheric. It's quite extensive and has good information boards with English to help you with interpretation of the buildings. Around the agora you get a really good feel for how it must have been before it was abandoned 2000 years ago. <br>It was deserted when we were there, perhaps it's busier in the spring/autumn when it isn't so hot but I got the feeling they're never busy. <br>Make sure you take plenty of water, there's nowhere to buy refreshments nearby. If you've got plenty of stamina you could combine this with the villa del casale mosaics for a heavy day's sightseeing.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Agritourismo Savoca, Piazza Armerina</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This agritourism (organic farm) is convenient for the Villa del Casale mosaics and other sites. The dinner is fantastic, mainly beautiful fresh produce off the farm. We stayed three nights and had anti pasti misto, pasta then a meat dish and salad, followed by dessert and fruit, plus wine. The cooking is extremely high quality. Breakfast included fresh figs straight off the tree. The drawback is that the beautiful swimming pool is open to the local teenagers in the afternoons and there's loud pop/disco music until 6! Dinner (including wine) bed and breakfast cost 55 Euros each.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Duomo Restaurant, Cefalu</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Lovely restaurant in the town square, overlooked by the Norman cathedral. Had a breeze in July so very pleasant. Helpful and charming service, very good food with the wide range of dishes available using the day's catch explained as you choose your fish from the cabinet and it is weighed (and priced) on the spot.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Museum of the Resistance, Thones</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Not far from the lake there is a very interesting and moving Museum of the Resistance. I learnt so much! <br>Surprisingly for this small museum there is a lot of English information too. There is also a section on Deportations.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The boat around the lake (summer months)</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[There is a tourist boat that runs around the lake a few times a day from Annecy town, stopping at villages all around. You can hop on and off to see the sites.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Circumvesuviana</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The local train service runs from Sorrento to Naples, with stations near to the main sites or with a shuttle bus (to Vesuvius). It drops you right outside Pompeii entrance for example. It's cheap and regular.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The National Archaeological Museum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The museum has lots of the treasures that have been removed from Pompeii/Herculaneum etc. for security reasons. I've been twice and it was very quiet on both occasions despite the stunning artefacts, I guess because of the reputation of the city. It also has the 'secret room' where much of the pornography from the sites is on display, you can easily avoid it if you wish!]]></description>
                
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                <title>Staying here to explore Cinque Terre</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Monterosso old town is a good place to stay to explore the Cinque Terre. It's got good railway and boat connections, attractive streets, bars and some of the most fantastic food I've ever eaten (risotto marinara to die for)! It's also got two decent beaches which the other villages lack.]]></description>
                
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