Hi, everyone!
Lourdes, thank you for helping me to get on "new thread".
I've been reading some of the threads, I know there are a lot of people in a similar situation, but yet I would appreciate some hints for these specific details. That will be part of my Honeymoon in this year’s April, after Portugal and before Svizzera.
So, let’s go to details:
1. No intention of renting cars.
2. We arrive in Leonardo da Vinci airport in Roma at 13h25 of April 13th, only to get the train to Firenze. We chose to get there this early because we really want to arrive in Firenze in the same day. We’ve already been in Rome. And we’ll not be arriving from a long trip, so it’ll not be necessary to take a rest. In short, we have no intention of spending any night in Roma. I see there are different options for taking the train. Which one would you suggest?
3. In Toscana, we want to visit Firenze, Siena (maybe San Gimignano, I don’t know how much time it takes), Lucca and Pisa. In this website, I usually see people suggesting to stay some nights in Firenze and some nights in Siena. I feel more comfortable with the idea of staying all nights in Firenze, which seems to have more things to do at night. Does it sound as any bad idea, for any reason?
4. Now the hardest part: after the trip, we are taking the train to Zurich, so we can visit Svizzera, and we fly back to Brasil from Zurich in April 24th. So we still haven’t decided the best day to travel to Zurich, if that would be 18, 19 or 20. All we know is we should take the train in the morning, so we can have daylight all the time in this wonderful path trough the Alpes. And, again, what kind of train would you recommend?
5. Enough of these questions? Not yet… We are also thinking if we can include one day in Cinque Terre in the end of this trip. Will it be recovered from the flooding in April? Is one day really enough? Would it be a good idea to sleep in Liguria an take the train to Zurich from any of its cities (in spite of going back to Firenze)?
So, making a schedule with all this ideas, we would have something like:
13 – Roma to Firenze
14 – Firenze
15 – Firenze
16 – Firenze: day trip to Siena and San Gimignano (is it possible?)
17 – Firenze: day trip to Lucca and Pisa
18 – Firenze to Liguria (which town?): visit Cinque Terre
19 – Liguria to Zurich in the morning
Or, maybe, on 17th, should we leave Pisa and go direct to Luguria?
Or should we forget San Gimignano and spend more time in Siena?
Or even forget about Cinque Terre?
Thank you, very much
Ricardo
Lourdes, thank you for helping me to get on "new thread".
I've been reading some of the threads, I know there are a lot of people in a similar situation, but yet I would appreciate some hints for these specific details. That will be part of my Honeymoon in this year’s April, after Portugal and before Svizzera.
So, let’s go to details:
1. No intention of renting cars.
2. We arrive in Leonardo da Vinci airport in Roma at 13h25 of April 13th, only to get the train to Firenze. We chose to get there this early because we really want to arrive in Firenze in the same day. We’ve already been in Rome. And we’ll not be arriving from a long trip, so it’ll not be necessary to take a rest. In short, we have no intention of spending any night in Roma. I see there are different options for taking the train. Which one would you suggest?
3. In Toscana, we want to visit Firenze, Siena (maybe San Gimignano, I don’t know how much time it takes), Lucca and Pisa. In this website, I usually see people suggesting to stay some nights in Firenze and some nights in Siena. I feel more comfortable with the idea of staying all nights in Firenze, which seems to have more things to do at night. Does it sound as any bad idea, for any reason?
4. Now the hardest part: after the trip, we are taking the train to Zurich, so we can visit Svizzera, and we fly back to Brasil from Zurich in April 24th. So we still haven’t decided the best day to travel to Zurich, if that would be 18, 19 or 20. All we know is we should take the train in the morning, so we can have daylight all the time in this wonderful path trough the Alpes. And, again, what kind of train would you recommend?
5. Enough of these questions? Not yet… We are also thinking if we can include one day in Cinque Terre in the end of this trip. Will it be recovered from the flooding in April? Is one day really enough? Would it be a good idea to sleep in Liguria an take the train to Zurich from any of its cities (in spite of going back to Firenze)?
So, making a schedule with all this ideas, we would have something like:
13 – Roma to Firenze
14 – Firenze
15 – Firenze
16 – Firenze: day trip to Siena and San Gimignano (is it possible?)
17 – Firenze: day trip to Lucca and Pisa
18 – Firenze to Liguria (which town?): visit Cinque Terre
19 – Liguria to Zurich in the morning
Or, maybe, on 17th, should we leave Pisa and go direct to Luguria?
Or should we forget San Gimignano and spend more time in Siena?
Or even forget about Cinque Terre?
Thank you, very much
Ricardo