our honeymoon began with a flight from portland to frankfurt, and then from frankfurt to milan. at milan, we took a bus from the malpensa airport to milano centrale, the main train station. it was super hot at the train station, as it was open air and packed with people. at the time, the computers were all down, so you could only buy train tickets with cash, no credit cards. we didn't have many euros, so we spent a long time searching for an ATM (bancomat) that was functioning - this being italy, the first one we found was down. we had only one train that we could take, and we had to make sure we got on it! it felt like a crazy scavenger hunt. we finally found one and purchased our tickets to zermatt, switzerland. our train was late, and we had a very tight connection to a smaller train in brig, switzerland, which we just barely missed. this meant we had to wait an hour for the next one, which turned out to be a bus, because we had missed the last train of the day. we took the bus all the way to tasch, where we all de-boarded and hopped on another short train which finally took us to zermatt. once there, the hotel's vehicle picked us up at the town square & deposited us at the hotel. what a long journey!!!