What an exciting trip. Thanks for taking us along. I love to hear Allie talking. Her enunciation is perfect. I feel like I have been on the trip with you. Keep up the good job. Can't wait for the next trip.
I love how it feels like you're taking us with you on a trip. It's nice seeing actual realistic travels that are not ridiculously bougie and unattainable. You inspired me to take the Amtrak from Boston to Seattle solo last summer and it was so amazing!
Truly beautiful views of the stunning blue ocean. Seems kinda of scary or eerie traveling on a ferry with your train. Kinda wished the train offered atleast dinner.
Looking out on the sea views sparked my imagination, made me want to write!! The train on the ferry, what!!? Blew my mind. I had to call my family in to watch! I love your videos!!
Oh my how beautiful the whole landscape was. The train ride down the coast to the ferry ride to Sicily. Italy is a beautiful country. Thank you for sharing your trip. Love it. 🖤❤️💙💚💛
Another informative and very enjoyable video packed with great information. Please continue to have a great time! You will make memories that will last you a lifetime.
I love watching your uploads, the way you both describe everything, and you always seem to have fun no matter what! stay safe and healthy and keep those fun uploads coming for those of us stuck at home lol!
I would love this kind of traveling. But I'm by myself and no one wants to travel..I use to use Amtrak in Philadelphia to North Carolina and get points..Thank you so much for sharing your Adventures🤗🙏🏾
But I'm gonna find something here in Philadelphia with Amtrak to go some where that I can stop and they have Country stop where small little Thrift Shops might be..I'm a Senoir Citizen & I have AARP so even if I have to go by myself🙏🏾💞
There is something about sleeper trains that we just find so fascinating!! We wanted to try one on our latest trip to Italy but none of our routes were long enough so we will just live vicariously through you two for now!!
Welcome to Sicily.. Thanks you two, ingenious the boat n the deck watching those amazing views, drifting along into port...love boat was it tempting for a possible future cruise ⛴go Italy
more then 30 years ago we took a Trenitalia Notte from Roma to Sicily; great trip and in those days there was a nice dining car! Before we took the Settebello (TEE) from Milano to Roma. In Sicily we stayed in several places like Taormina en rented a car to see the island, Palermo included where we took a Alitalia flight to Roma and from Roma a connecting flight to Amsterdam back home..
wow, that is so cool! You guys have traveled by some of the most interesting ways. who would have thought you could travel by train to an island. Maybe someone will do this so you can go to Hawaii by rail
I love watching all of your train travel vlogs. For the Europe trip will you also be able to provide the sightseeing vlogs for different countries. That would awesome! Thank you for having great contents.
If you think that journey was long, try the Paris to Syracusa train. Sicily is fabulous, lovely food, wines, cakes, ice-cream, amazing architecture, history, ocean, weather and really amazing people. Thanks for uploading.
So glad you are going to Sicily! My great-grandparents were from near Palermo. I hope to get there someday. That sleeper car seemed pretty comfortable and the views were lovely! Happy travels! Hope you do a Sicily video! ❤️
In Milan, you could also have left your luggage at the left luggage office and wandered around - even go to Lake Como (either Como or Lecco) in under two hours round trip).
I would have been geeking out so much loading a train on a ferry. How did they do it? Did they unhook and hook the engine to each section of train or did they use a pulley system?
We aren't exactly sure how they did it, but we were the third section on and they kept pulling us forward and then backward until it was our turn. It was pretty cool!
Terrific video and an interesting departure from your AmTrak episodes. Of course, Europe uses trains for A LOT of inter-city transportation (as opposed to US' AmTrak that's a less-used, govt-created hybrid model of "ferries" on some routes and "cruises" on most long-distance). I live along NECorridor, used to commute to NY and trains are my choice between Boston & Washington. Have also train'd in Europe (all over Continent incl. train ferry to/from Copenhagen, and UK too, but only once on a sleeper between Glasgow & London). Deregulation of Europe's airline business during the early 2000's offered better air travel options between many more-distant markets. Still, as we know, from times required to connect to/from airports; security lines, and delays, train travel is still terrific for 150 ~ 350 km's. This is a long'ish trip and it is interesting to see how the service is sufficient but maybe a bit perfunctory?
You do have to search pretty far to find a long sleeper train, basically you need to go to Sicily, otherwise there just isn't enough time to do it right. The high speed trains are too fast in the north. It is a totally different experience from the 3 day trips in the USA for sure!
Looks like the only place for you to sit was on the beds. No seats in the cabin? Was there an observation car at all? Anywhere else you could sit? Loved the views though. And the ferry was pretty cool, too.
So there's no seats in the room? You have to watch the views sitting on the bed? Or just go to the car where the seats are? I mean the views are pretty but not much comfort
The bed can fold up and have a seat under it, but we just kept it like it was for some reason. We took another one back to Rome yesterday, and it had a built in seat as well as the bed, so a better room!
Wow looks like you guys are doing a similar trip to me! We started in Newcastle UK and worked our way down on the Eurostar through Belgium, Germany, Switzerland (although we took the Bernina instead of the Glacier) and then down through Italy now in Palermo! We didn’t do the sleeper train instead we did the day train and it was still such a great trip! Even though there was no wifi, no food the 9.5 hrs flew by!!! Maybe we’ll bump into you around Sicily 😀
Hmm.. good question, that could be the case, ours went to Palermo, but the Terminus station on the board was listed as Siracusa, and I can't imagine they go there after Palermo, so I think you could be right.
Hello from Washington State! Another great video!! I seen a couple videos on how the train ferry works…..that just too cool!! One thing I wanted to ask … since there’s no seats in your room only beds …. How do you both sit too look out the window? I think my back would bother me not sitting back. Hope that’s not a silly question 🤓 Looking forward to your next adventure. Thank you!! Kathy🥰
Thanks! The bed would fold up and have seats under it but we just sat on it like a couch sort of with our legs hanging off a little. I'm not sure why we did that instead of making the seats up!
On this, and one other sleeper car video, you showed a top bunk for a 3rd person. It looks like that uppermost bunk would come down to within inches of the middle bunk. Does the middle one go lower, in that case? My inner claustrophobe is curious as to how that works. Very fun and informative video, as always!
We love both, but they are really really different. Amtrak routes are so long, and we love that, you get the real feel of 2-3 days on a train, which we love. Europe has the high speed routes which are equally as awesome, but you are on and off much quicker always. It's almost like comparing two different modes of transportation.
If I booked for me and someone else for the Vagone Letto Deluxe - Doppia Cabina Intera are we going to be in the same room or how does it work because on my ticket it appears as coach 5 seat 51 upper and second person appears as coach 5 seat 55 lower and it seems based of the numbers that we aren’t in the same room ?
Do you know how you can book 2 rooms next to each other with a door in between? I already asked Trenitalia. Their answer : It is possible but do not know on which connections, and from how many people 🙄.
What an exciting trip. Thanks for taking us along. I love to hear Allie talking. Her enunciation is perfect. I feel like I have been on the trip with you. Keep up the good job. Can't wait for the next trip.
“Picture it. Sicily. 1922” So glad to finally see it. 😊
I do enjoy traveling with you even if from my livingroom.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it
Beautiful train ride. I enjoyed watching the maginificent view of nature. Tnx4sharing. Full watched👍🏻
Thank you so much 👍
I love the you guys travels but we miss you guys home love dad
Thanks! Miss you too
Awesome video! We were wondering about doing an overnight from Naples to Palermo on the 28th and your video sold us on the idea! Thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful!
I love how it feels like you're taking us with you on a trip. It's nice seeing actual realistic travels that are not ridiculously bougie and unattainable. You inspired me to take the Amtrak from Boston to Seattle solo last summer and it was so amazing!
Stunning views from the train/ferry.
Thanks!
Such a wonderful video for those of us that can only dream of this. Thank you. I look forward to more.
Hello happy to see you guys Happy Easter 🐰
Thanks! You too!
Loading the train onto the ferry, that’s awesome. I never heard of that.
We hadn't either!
@@GroundedLifeTravel I got my coworker to subscribe to your channel, I hope he saw this video.
Beautiful! Good to know one needs food for lunch and dinner.
Absolutely!!
You two are so cute! Love your videos! I really enjoy your videos!
Beautiful views 😍 thanks for taking us along for the ride.
You are welcome!
Truly beautiful views of the stunning blue ocean. Seems kinda of scary or eerie traveling on a ferry with your train. Kinda wished the train offered atleast dinner.
It was beautiful! At least we knew beforehand that there wasn't going to be food
Enjoy all your train trips
Thanks!
Looking out on the sea views sparked my imagination, made me want to write!! The train on the ferry, what!!? Blew my mind. I had to call my family in to watch! I love your videos!!
Oh my how beautiful the whole landscape was. The train ride down the coast to the ferry ride to Sicily. Italy is a beautiful country. Thank you for sharing your trip. Love it. 🖤❤️💙💚💛
That’s an amazing trip, especially with the ferry transport of the train cars to Sicily! Amazing!
Another informative and very enjoyable video packed with great information. Please continue to have a great time! You will make memories that will last you a lifetime.
Thank you! Will do!
I appreciate how you let the scenery speak for itself. You bring us right into your view from your seat on the train! 🤗
I love watching your uploads, the way you both describe everything, and you always seem to have fun no matter what! stay safe and healthy and keep those fun uploads coming for those of us stuck at home lol!
Thank you for bringing us along with your travels, much appreciated! Enjoy...
Our pleasure!
That was a beautiful view and the ferry ⛴️ was very cool.
Love the scenic views in this video. After all, other than commuters, the train is about relaxing and watch the world pass you by!
I would love this kind of traveling. But I'm by myself and no one wants to travel..I use to use Amtrak in Philadelphia to North Carolina and get points..Thank you so much for sharing your Adventures🤗🙏🏾
I understand that, it's more fun traveling with someone
But I'm gonna find something here in Philadelphia with Amtrak to go some where that I can stop and they have Country stop where small little Thrift Shops might be..I'm a Senoir Citizen & I have AARP so even if I have to go by myself🙏🏾💞
We'd love to hear about your travels! Hope you have a great time!
Cannot wait to try this adventure…train over the seas!
The train ferry was fascinating to watch! Thanks so much for sharing the experience with us :)
There is something about sleeper trains that we just find so fascinating!! We wanted to try one on our latest trip to Italy but none of our routes were long enough so we will just live vicariously through you two for now!!
Thanks! Yes, it is hard to do a sleeper in the northern cities for sure
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Such amazing trip.
That is so cool!
Thanks!
Thanks for explain all about seat numbers, I booked a night train and was very nervous about that issue.
Yes, us too! It all worked out
This was a great watch!
Thanks!
we got lucky and got a twofer....cruise and train travel. Loved it! Thank you for taking us along. Can't wait till you do Japan!
Nice! Beautiful trip! Thanks for sharing and taking us along!
Another great video guys!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks so much, love you both! Great job with the videos, so interesting with boarding the ferry!
For lunch you can also usually stock up on sicilian food on the ferry cafeteria. Sandwiches and focaccia tend to go a bit stale after a night.
Welcome to Sicily..
Thanks you two, ingenious the boat n the deck watching those amazing views, drifting along into port...love boat was it tempting for a possible future cruise ⛴go Italy
Our pleasure! The port of Messina looked beautiful!
Great to catch up on your travel adventures ❤️
more then 30 years ago we took a Trenitalia Notte from Roma to Sicily; great trip and in those days there was a nice dining car! Before we took the Settebello (TEE) from Milano to Roma. In Sicily we stayed in several places like Taormina en rented a car to see the island, Palermo included where we took a Alitalia flight to Roma and from Roma a connecting flight to Amsterdam back home..
Thanks for sharing! Sounds like a great trip!
wow, that is so cool! You guys have traveled by some of the most interesting ways. who would have thought you could travel by train to an island. Maybe someone will do this so you can go to Hawaii by rail
That would be awesome!
Great video guys!
Thank you!
I am never disappointed by your picturesque and informative content. Your vlogs are among the very best travel vlogs I have found on TH-cam.💯🌏💟🙌🏼👏🏼
I love watching all of your train travel vlogs. For the Europe trip will you also be able to provide the sightseeing vlogs for different countries. That would awesome! Thank you for having great contents.
We will have some of our city tours mixed in this summer hopefully!
If you think that journey was long, try the Paris to Syracusa train. Sicily is fabulous, lovely food, wines, cakes, ice-cream, amazing architecture, history, ocean, weather and really amazing people. Thanks for uploading.
That was amazing. You never thought they could put a train on a ferry, wow!!! Thanks for sharing and for your travel tips.
That's amazing how the train goes onto the ferry. Beautiful views as always 😊💗
Thanks for sharing this awesome video! The ferry was truly unique! Praying for your continued safe travels! 🙏🏾🤗
Thank you so much!
So glad you are going to Sicily! My great-grandparents were from near Palermo. I hope to get there someday. That sleeper car seemed pretty comfortable and the views were lovely! Happy travels! Hope you do a Sicily video! ❤️
Thanks! Yes, highly recommended trip, we loved these views!
Great podcast
Looks like a very fun trip on the train, I bet it’s easy to sleep on that train too, like being rocked to sleep! Great price too! Enjoy Sicily! ✌🏻🇺🇸
Another great video! I just love your reviews of sleeper cars, and I was as excited as Allie was about the bag that the amenity kit came in 😊
Excellente ❤
Thanks!
You're right it does remind me of the Coastal starlight going south, though I have only seen footage of it.
In Milan, you could also have left your luggage at the left luggage office and wandered around - even go to Lake Como (either Como or Lecco) in under two hours round trip).
Thanks for the tip!
Loved it all!
That's funny! I think she probably just assumed Americans would want still water. Thanks for the video.
That first “bathroom” would be great for just doing your sink needed activities without hogging a toilet! 😉
I would have been geeking out so much loading a train on a ferry. How did they do it? Did they unhook and hook the engine to each section of train or did they use a pulley system?
We aren't exactly sure how they did it, but we were the third section on and they kept pulling us forward and then backward until it was our turn. It was pretty cool!
That was so unique. Never seen anything like that. How did you keep the sandwich cold since you bought it the day before & it had meat in it.
I was wondering that, too! Its a risk of food poisoning if it's unrefrigerated for more than 4 hours.
Any issues with sea sickness on the ferry? How long was the ferry ride? Water looked kind of rough…
Terrific video and an interesting departure from your AmTrak episodes.
Of course, Europe uses trains for A LOT of inter-city transportation (as opposed to US' AmTrak that's a less-used, govt-created hybrid model of "ferries" on some routes and "cruises" on most long-distance). I live along NECorridor, used to commute to NY and trains are my choice between Boston & Washington. Have also train'd in Europe (all over Continent incl. train ferry to/from Copenhagen, and UK too, but only once on a sleeper between Glasgow & London).
Deregulation of Europe's airline business during the early 2000's offered better air travel options between many more-distant markets. Still, as we know, from times required to connect to/from airports; security lines, and delays, train travel is still terrific for 150 ~ 350 km's. This is a long'ish trip and it is interesting to see how the service is sufficient but maybe a bit perfunctory?
You do have to search pretty far to find a long sleeper train, basically you need to go to Sicily, otherwise there just isn't enough time to do it right. The high speed trains are too fast in the north. It is a totally different experience from the 3 day trips in the USA for sure!
Looks like the only place for you to sit was on the beds. No seats in the cabin? Was there an observation car at all? Anywhere else you could sit? Loved the views though. And the ferry was pretty cool, too.
Were there barriers to prevent rolling off the upper bunk? My fear of upper bunks since an incident when a child.
Yes, there were barriers that would have prevented it, so we didn't have any problems!
So there's no seats in the room? You have to watch the views sitting on the bed? Or just go to the car where the seats are? I mean the views are pretty but not much comfort
The bed can fold up and have a seat under it, but we just kept it like it was for some reason. We took another one back to Rome yesterday, and it had a built in seat as well as the bed, so a better room!
I'm thinking about a sleeper train in the next few months. Was the bed comfortable at all?
Wow looks like you guys are doing a similar trip to me! We started in Newcastle UK and worked our way down on the Eurostar through Belgium, Germany, Switzerland (although we took the Bernina instead of the Glacier) and then down through Italy now in Palermo! We didn’t do the sleeper train instead we did the day train and it was still such a great trip! Even though there was no wifi, no food the 9.5 hrs flew by!!! Maybe we’ll bump into you around Sicily 😀
So is the deal that the train divides in Messina with part of it going west to Palermo and part going south to Siracusa?
Hmm.. good question, that could be the case, ours went to Palermo, but the Terminus station on the board was listed as Siracusa, and I can't imagine they go there after Palermo, so I think you could be right.
Yes, that's right. In Messina the train is divided into one section to Palermo and one to Siracusa.
I like the video a great deal but I think you might have enjoyed it a tad more than me, just saying. Oh gracious, have fun, be happy and just Be♡
Hello from Washington State! Another great video!! I seen a couple videos on how the train ferry works…..that just too cool!!
One thing I wanted to ask … since there’s no seats in your room only beds …. How do you both sit too look out the window? I think my back would bother me not sitting back. Hope that’s not a silly question 🤓
Looking forward to your next adventure. Thank you!!
Kathy🥰
Thanks! The bed would fold up and have seats under it but we just sat on it like a couch sort of with our legs hanging off a little. I'm not sure why we did that instead of making the seats up!
Too cool a train on a ferry! What is the music you always play when you are showing scenery? I really like it!
Thanks! It is called Dinner For Two
Rob, I wonder what the weight limit is for this upper bunk? Also this upper looks easier for you to get in.
That coffee. Was that like a .5 inch serving?
On this, and one other sleeper car video, you showed a top bunk for a 3rd person. It looks like that uppermost bunk would come down to within inches of the middle bunk. Does the middle one go lower, in that case? My inner claustrophobe is curious as to how that works. Very fun and informative video, as always!
Love your ch but a question as you guys are now Euro travelers, which do you two like the best, Amtrak or the Euro trains :) ??
We love both, but they are really really different. Amtrak routes are so long, and we love that, you get the real feel of 2-3 days on a train, which we love. Europe has the high speed routes which are equally as awesome, but you are on and off much quicker always. It's almost like comparing two different modes of transportation.
If I booked for me and someone else for the Vagone Letto Deluxe - Doppia Cabina Intera are we going to be in the same room or how does it work because on my ticket it appears as coach 5 seat 51 upper and second person appears as coach 5 seat 55 lower and it seems based of the numbers that we aren’t in the same room ?
I always enable international roaming on my phone so you can get text and email while away and call the bank immediately if you have any issues
Don’t tell me you missed out on the arancini in the boat cafe!?
Do you know how you can book 2 rooms next to each other with a door in between?
I already asked Trenitalia. Their answer : It is possible but do not know on which connections, and from how many people 🙄.
What did u have for breakfast
It was bread and coffee mostly
its called sparkling water or mineral water
You missed going to the two most beautiful cities Sicilian has to offer...Taormina and Syracusa
Why in the world is the bathroom with the toilet as noisy as a construction zone?
That breakfast sucked.
This looks like the worst room ever
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