By the way, just in case if you are interested: There are regular and good train services from Malpensa Airport (MXP) and Milano Centrale (central train station) to Varenna Esino. You can buy the tickets at machines at the stations. Malpensa - Varenna is about 2 hours, 18,70 EUR Milano C - Varenna is about 1 hour, 6,70 EUR (direct connection) Search here: http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom-en get to Milano Centrale first. Check the connections within Milano here: http://giromilano.atm.it/#/home/ Linate - Milano C is about 1 hour, 1,50 EUR Anyone living around 1.000 km of Milano I can only recommend to travel by train all the way. There are excellent _direct_ train services from Basel, Zürich, Munich, Triest, Roma, Geneva, Venice, Lucerne. If you come from the north you can either enjoy the most pittoresque and traditional train line in the world via Gotthard, or the most modern high-speed tunnels with a thrilling 120 second train distance. I will take EC 15 (Zürich HB - Milano C) on Thursday. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_railway * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ETR_610?uselang=de#/media/File:… Have save journeys! /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens www.wikimedia.ch