misstravelbug
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Hi,
I thought I'd post my itinerary and see what you all think, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart with all of your wonderful advice on my previous threads.
We are off to Italy next Spring/Summer for 2 months. These are broken into two sections:
A family trip with DH, myself and our 2 children (aged 11 and 8) for a month, then the next month the children and myself meet up with my SIL, while DH flies back to Australia.
Rome 8 nights
Assisi 7 nights
Tuscany, val d'orcia (La Foce) 7 nights
Lastra a Signa 3 nights...at a b&b I have wanted to stay at for a long time; day trip to Pisa for kids
Santa Margherita Ligure 7 nights
Milan/Govone or near the airport for 1 night???
We will have a car and pick it up in Rome, drop off at Malpensa airport.
DH flies home.
kids and I travel to Verona 3 nights
meet SIL in Venice 7 nights
Florence 7 nights
Bologna 3 nights
Turin 7 nights
Milan 2 nights
We will not have a car for the second part and will rely on trains.
We have left out so many places, although I am focusing on bookmarking them for next time, rather than seeing them as left out...LOL
So I have two more questions for you please:
1. Would you keep the car for the entire time from Rome-Milan (first month)?
It is not much more to have it (around $300 more) and the apartment includes a parking space. The other option is to drop it off after Lastra a Signa in Florence and use trains from then on.
2. For our last night together (first month) I am undecided between staying in Milan, having one night in Govone Piedmont at a b&b/area I also wanted to stay at but couldn't fit in this trip, or are there any nice hotels around a 30 minute drive from MXP?
Most of the accommodation is booked now (but cancellable), with the exception of the Milan parts at the end of both months.
I have used apartment accomodation for most of it; airbnb and some private apartments recommended to me by other travellers.
I am happy to share where we are staying if anyone is interested.
And now I will be researching the tours/cool stuff we want to experience.
Happy travels
MTB xo
I thought I'd post my itinerary and see what you all think, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart with all of your wonderful advice on my previous threads.
We are off to Italy next Spring/Summer for 2 months. These are broken into two sections:
A family trip with DH, myself and our 2 children (aged 11 and 8) for a month, then the next month the children and myself meet up with my SIL, while DH flies back to Australia.
Rome 8 nights
Assisi 7 nights
Tuscany, val d'orcia (La Foce) 7 nights
Lastra a Signa 3 nights...at a b&b I have wanted to stay at for a long time; day trip to Pisa for kids
Santa Margherita Ligure 7 nights
Milan/Govone or near the airport for 1 night???
We will have a car and pick it up in Rome, drop off at Malpensa airport.
DH flies home.
kids and I travel to Verona 3 nights
meet SIL in Venice 7 nights
Florence 7 nights
Bologna 3 nights
Turin 7 nights
Milan 2 nights
We will not have a car for the second part and will rely on trains.
We have left out so many places, although I am focusing on bookmarking them for next time, rather than seeing them as left out...LOL
So I have two more questions for you please:
1. Would you keep the car for the entire time from Rome-Milan (first month)?
It is not much more to have it (around $300 more) and the apartment includes a parking space. The other option is to drop it off after Lastra a Signa in Florence and use trains from then on.
2. For our last night together (first month) I am undecided between staying in Milan, having one night in Govone Piedmont at a b&b/area I also wanted to stay at but couldn't fit in this trip, or are there any nice hotels around a 30 minute drive from MXP?
Most of the accommodation is booked now (but cancellable), with the exception of the Milan parts at the end of both months.
I have used apartment accomodation for most of it; airbnb and some private apartments recommended to me by other travellers.
I am happy to share where we are staying if anyone is interested.
And now I will be researching the tours/cool stuff we want to experience.
Happy travels
MTB xo