Beautiful photos! So many people in my social media feeds are vacationing in Italy right now. It's making me want to experience it myself. What Italian cities would you recommend visiting for someone planning their first ten day trip?
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If it's a first trip to Italy, I guess you should tick the Milan and Rome (and Vatican) boxes.
Personally, I like Tuscany, we spent a week there some years ago, based in Sienna, and did day trips to other places. I have a summary of my trip here if you're interested. The area is between Milan and Rome making a nice stop over, and easy to fly in and out of the country from America and the two large cities.
https://peakd.com/@livinguktaiwan/-a-taster-of-tuscany-italy-1599928049002
Venice is also famous, but I have no desire to go; it seems very overrated and too touristy.
Hope you can make a trip sometime, it's a nice country, I like it a lot
Thanks for the link! That will be really helpful for future trip planning. I've heard great things about Florence as well but it's so tough to see everything in one trip. I don't have much desire to see Venice either—we try to avoid places that are overly touristy. Did you experience any trouble on the streets with scammers? I've heard that's getting worse in Italy. I appreciate it! Most seasoned travelers I've spoken with say Italy is their favorite but I've also heard that traveling Italy isn't for the faint of heart due to irregular train schedules and such. I'd definitely be up for it at this point in my life!
Apart from a couple of drivers who tried to overcharge me on rides in Bangkok and China, touch wood, I haven't come across any scammers or pickpocketers during my travels.
I've heard about train travel issues in Italy as well. This was at the main station in Naples on May Day during my trip. In the end I just walked 10 minutes to the station before this and got a seat with a handful of other people. It was quite chaotic when the train pulled into this main station.
I make sure I never catch the last train, bus or ship back to my destination. With Google, everything is quite a breeze now, just need to do a bit of prep beforehand