On Friday morning I was up before dawn to head across to Italy for the first of 12 lectures for a course I'm taking on Neuroscience and Design.
The first of my trains arrived out of the fog to take me to the nearby town of Ins.
The fast train from Neuchatel stops in Ins but not my local station, so from here you can get to Bern in about 20 minutes. I wasn’t thrilled about waiting in Ins for 15 minutes at this time of day, but honestly it was quite magical.
Dawn was breaking by the time I arrived in Bern.
From Bern it’s a straight shot through to Milan in a little over 3 hours.
Passing through the Bernese Oberland the sun finally showed up over the peaks.
Arriving in Milan I was feeling surprisingly fresh.
I’d arranged to meet with Viola Cambié from Lombardini22 and a colleague of hers, Ash, who I hadn’t met before. We met by the “Apple Made Whole Again” sculpture, just outside Milano Centrale train station.
We walked to a nearby pizzeria where I was served a…