My wife and I are traveling to Italy in early May where we will meet our daughter will have finished her semester abroad. At one point in the trip, we will take a train from Florence to Munich. I know what trains we want to take, but I can't decide what's the best way to buy tickets. I feel like our two best options are: 1. Book all three legs (Florence to Bologna. Bologna to Verona and Verona to Munich) on a site like raileurope.com. 2. Book only the Verona to Munich leg on bahn.de, print the tickets at home, and buy the two Italian legs a few days before we want to make that trip. I've search this site, and others, and while I won't say I've seen conflicting suggestions, I just can seem to find the definitive answer, whatever that is. So I just decided to just ask. BTW, while we haven't been back to Europe in 20 years, my wife and I did live in Nuernberg for four years while I was in the Army, and I did two tours in Germany before that. That's one reason for the trip from Italy to Germany, to show our daughter where we lived before she born. Lastly, we are chronic over-packers. Thank mainly to all the advice and suggestions we've seen here, we will both be taking one carry-on suite case apiece for this two week trip. Thanks,
Cary
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Raileurope won't show you all the options. Use www.bahn.de to see all the trains. Are you doing it in three stages or in one shot? You can buy the Italian trains at trenitalia.com. Primary reason to buy in advance is the savings fares. You can get the Firenza-Bologne leg for as low as 9 Euro now. You can also travel regional trains at walk up prices 11 Euro Firenza-Bologna, and Bologna-Verona for 9 Euro. The fast trains do Firenza-Bologna in 37 minutes vs 1 hour 21 minutes regional. The Verona-Munich has advance tickets as low as 39 Euro, on Bahn.de