Queenie
10+ Posts
Hello,
We will be visiting Sicily in Sept/Oct 2019 for 10 days and then we would like to find a home base to discover Northern Italy. (haven’t been there yet on any of our Past 5 trips to Italy) We could stay up to 20 more days in this area. We want to have down time as well as day trips.
I was considering Parma or Bologna as a home base, either staying close to train station for easy day trips or outside of town in villa with a car. Would combine car and train for transportation if needed. We do love having the freedom of a car for at least part of a trip to take drives in countrysides etc. I guess our dream would be a home with a lovely kitchen to cook in and mix relaxing days there with days where we could take day trips by car or train. We would want to be close enough if we stayed outside of town to get in at times for dining, shopping, cafes and markets.
I would appreciate any suggestions of where you would base yourself and any names of hotels, apartments, holiday homes, or working farms/wineries with apartments etc. to rent. It doesn’t have to be Parma or Bologna; they were the two towns that seemed to be suggested a lot of the time in my researching so far.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!
We will be visiting Sicily in Sept/Oct 2019 for 10 days and then we would like to find a home base to discover Northern Italy. (haven’t been there yet on any of our Past 5 trips to Italy) We could stay up to 20 more days in this area. We want to have down time as well as day trips.
I was considering Parma or Bologna as a home base, either staying close to train station for easy day trips or outside of town in villa with a car. Would combine car and train for transportation if needed. We do love having the freedom of a car for at least part of a trip to take drives in countrysides etc. I guess our dream would be a home with a lovely kitchen to cook in and mix relaxing days there with days where we could take day trips by car or train. We would want to be close enough if we stayed outside of town to get in at times for dining, shopping, cafes and markets.
I would appreciate any suggestions of where you would base yourself and any names of hotels, apartments, holiday homes, or working farms/wineries with apartments etc. to rent. It doesn’t have to be Parma or Bologna; they were the two towns that seemed to be suggested a lot of the time in my researching so far.
Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!