A tour guide from Orvieto explains why his Umbrian hill-town home is well worth a stop on your Italy itinerary. Then a rail enthusiast looks at train travel in Europe and beyond and considers how — and why — the US set off upon a different track. And a British journalist takes us along as she rides the rails on a lively journey across India.

• Italian tour guide Andrea Vincenti, based in Orvieto
• Dan Richards, author of "Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark" (Canongate)
• Journalist Monisha Rajesh, author of "Around India in 80 Trains" and "Moonlight Express: Around the World by Night Train" (Bloomsbury)

• The Rick Steves online guide to Orvieto.
• Andrea Vincenti's website.
• The St. Patrick's Well in Orvieto is known in Italian as the Pozzo di San Patrizio.
• Dan Richards wrote a guest opinion column about train travel for the May 18, 2025 New York Times. He's also the author of "Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark."
• Dan spoke further with Rick about the "Overnight" world on Travel with Rick Steves program #805 in September 2025.
• Monisha Rajesh wrote for The Guardian about her experience traveling "Around India in 80 Trains."
• The Times of India interviewed Monisha in 2017 about her train adventures.