Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave

Thanks for that. I must admit hiring a car in Italy is way down on my list of fun exercises, given the dreadful driving standards there. However MXP has a great fast train service into the centre of Milan and the Passante, and (by changing) to Lake Como too. Linate has a bus service, which is cheap but a bit tedious. Late at night the MXP coach services are quite fast too and cheap. MXP seems to have been abandoned by Alitalia, so it's quite congenial now!