Planning our trip to Brussels was mostly Nick’s doing, which is fine, but I am not used to not bring in control (type A much?!?!?). I did sit down and do some math on which flights and trains would be the best value for our time, but I didn’t really dive too deep into the trip planning like I usually do. I have learned my lesson and from now on will double check everything, as my time here has taught me that Italians run on a different time schedule, especially their trains! We decided to take a late evening train to Milan and spend the night at a hotel close to the airport to allow us maximum time in Brussels. We depart Milan at 7:00 am, so since Milan is two hours by train and the airport another hour by bus, booking a hotel the night before was the way to go. Only I didn’t plan on our train being forty five minutes delayed – eek! 

The night before I did quickly look at the bus schedule and it seemed that it ran into early am, but as we sat at the train station patiently waiting, I was wasn’t convinced that it actually did and feared that we would be stuck in Milano Centro and no back up plan. When our train arrived in Milano at 11:40 pm, I quickly booked it out of the train station to the bus terminal to thankfully find out the next bus departed at midnight – whew! Crisis averted, but once again lesson learned not to cut it close – avoid travel anxiety at all cost!