steve_australia
New member
Hello there,
My wife and I are travelling to Italy in May, next year and need advice about how we should break up the holiday. I know this is a forum only for Tuscany, but I thought it might help if you knew our total Italy plans.
Our plan is to spend between 21 and 25 days - beginning in Milan and ending in Rome from where we will be flying back to Australia. We will be arriving in (or near) Milan from Zermatt, Switzerland on around May 19, 2012.
We won't have our own car. We plan to travel by Train or Bus or whatever is suggested. Our "must see" areas are Tuscany and Cinque Terre, but being so far away from Australia, would like to see as much of Italy as possible.
We hope to see the following places during our stay:
Milan
Verona (hopefully also bus/train/drive around Lake Garda)
Venice
Turin
Cinque Terre
Tuscany - including Florence, Siena (incl. Val D'Elsa ), Chianti and Pisa
Naples, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Capri, Pompeii
Rome
My questions are:
1. How many days do you recommend we spend in each area?
2. How many Home Bases will we need to see what we have planned to see?
3. Are there any "must see" places that we have missed, but are close by?
4. Can you recommend accommodation (around 120 Euro per night) for these areas?
5. Can you recommend any day tours that will allow us to see more than we could on our own?
6. Is there an Italian equivalent to the Swiss Pass or should we get a Eurorail Pass or simply travel train by train as required?
If you can only answer questions directly associated with Tuscany, could someone please point me to another forum where I could get some valuable info on the rest of Italy?
Thank you in advance. Steve.
My wife and I are travelling to Italy in May, next year and need advice about how we should break up the holiday. I know this is a forum only for Tuscany, but I thought it might help if you knew our total Italy plans.
Our plan is to spend between 21 and 25 days - beginning in Milan and ending in Rome from where we will be flying back to Australia. We will be arriving in (or near) Milan from Zermatt, Switzerland on around May 19, 2012.
We won't have our own car. We plan to travel by Train or Bus or whatever is suggested. Our "must see" areas are Tuscany and Cinque Terre, but being so far away from Australia, would like to see as much of Italy as possible.
We hope to see the following places during our stay:
Milan
Verona (hopefully also bus/train/drive around Lake Garda)
Venice
Turin
Cinque Terre
Tuscany - including Florence, Siena (incl. Val D'Elsa ), Chianti and Pisa
Naples, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Capri, Pompeii
Rome
My questions are:
1. How many days do you recommend we spend in each area?
2. How many Home Bases will we need to see what we have planned to see?
3. Are there any "must see" places that we have missed, but are close by?
4. Can you recommend accommodation (around 120 Euro per night) for these areas?
5. Can you recommend any day tours that will allow us to see more than we could on our own?
6. Is there an Italian equivalent to the Swiss Pass or should we get a Eurorail Pass or simply travel train by train as required?
If you can only answer questions directly associated with Tuscany, could someone please point me to another forum where I could get some valuable info on the rest of Italy?
Thank you in advance. Steve.