My husband and I are meeting up with friends on Easter Sunday for a week in Florence. We have rented an apartment.
There will be six of us, and I think the general feeling is that we don't want a fast-paced vacation but do want to see some of the top sites. We will get the Florence Card and plan to spend 3 days seeing Florence, spend one day in Chianti vineyards (either on our own or on a guided wine tour), and possibly spend a day each in Sienna and Lucca. If we don't do a wine tour, we're planning to rent a van for a day to do Chianti, but we were planning to use public transportation for the rest of the trip.
Do you have any suggestions on which of those activities would be best for Easter Monday? Given that some of us will be recovering from jetlag (the others will have been in Rome for a day or two first) and we'd like a relaxing day?
I've heard that the train schedules will be running on a different schedule, which might make Sienna and Lucca difficult. I'm having trouble finding details of what the schedules will be for Easter Monday. (It would help if I spoke Italian, but, sadly, I don't.)
Any other tips on making those first two days go smoothly? We would prefer to avoid the worst of the crowds.
There will be six of us, and I think the general feeling is that we don't want a fast-paced vacation but do want to see some of the top sites. We will get the Florence Card and plan to spend 3 days seeing Florence, spend one day in Chianti vineyards (either on our own or on a guided wine tour), and possibly spend a day each in Sienna and Lucca. If we don't do a wine tour, we're planning to rent a van for a day to do Chianti, but we were planning to use public transportation for the rest of the trip.
Do you have any suggestions on which of those activities would be best for Easter Monday? Given that some of us will be recovering from jetlag (the others will have been in Rome for a day or two first) and we'd like a relaxing day?
I've heard that the train schedules will be running on a different schedule, which might make Sienna and Lucca difficult. I'm having trouble finding details of what the schedules will be for Easter Monday. (It would help if I spoke Italian, but, sadly, I don't.)
Any other tips on making those first two days go smoothly? We would prefer to avoid the worst of the crowds.