Italy - Honeymoon

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Gonna be in italy in june. Vatican/pope is on the list already. Gonna be in Milan, venice, and probably travel down the east coast before ending in naples/rome. I'm most interested in learning countryside/off the beaten path things people think are cool. Probably gonna hit the tours a lot more than I usually do, which is basically never.
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I wouldn’t stay on the east coast of Italy unless you enjoy beaches full of older German tourists wearing speedos. I’d spend a night near Bologna and book a table at a nice traditional restaurant, as it’s considered the culinary capital of Italy. I can recommend Clinica Gastronomica, between Modena and Reggio Emilia — you can taste some of the best Italian cuisine there.
I’d then head to Florence for a day, then Sienna, and after that the vineyards of Montalcino for some great red wine tastings. From there, you’re quite close to Rome.
I’d skip Pisa — there’s not much worth staying for, except if you like rude chinese.
 
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Tholan said:
I wouldn’t stay on the east coast of Italy unless you enjoy beaches full of older German tourists wearing speedos. I’d spend a night near Bologna and book a table at a nice traditional restaurant, as it’s considered the culinary capital of Italy. I can recommend Clinica Gastronomica, between Modena and Reggio Emilia — you can taste some of the best Italian cuisine there.
I’d then head to Florence for a day, then Sienna, and after that the vineyards of Montalcino for some great red wine tastings. From there, you’re quite close to Rome.
I’d skip Pisa — there’s not much worth staying for, except if you like rude chinese.
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If you're near Bologna I'd definitely go to Maranello and do the Ferrari museum and factory. There's also a Lamborghini museum, Ducati museum. The Pagani factory is near there too.

I mean, you can definitely still do the German tourists in speedos thing but I'd go by the exotic car capital of the world too.
 
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Tholan said:
I wouldn’t stay on the east coast of Italy unless you enjoy beaches full of older German tourists wearing speedos. I’d spend a night near Bologna and book a table at a nice traditional restaurant, as it’s considered the culinary capital of Italy. I can recommend Clinica Gastronomica, between Modena and Reggio Emilia — you can taste some of the best Italian cuisine there.
I’d then head to Florence for a day, then Sienna, and after that the vineyards of Montalcino for some great red wine tastings. From there, you’re quite close to Rome.
I’d skip Pisa — there’s not much worth staying for, except if you like rude chinese.
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Due to our adventures in the middle east I locked in my trip suddenly. I intentionally want to travel mostly by train as an experiment since I've never done it before. So I'll have more time to soak in cities as I go rather than wander like I usually do. I'm going to Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples, Rome. Spending 3 days in each, 5 days in rome. I'll be doing a day trip to pompei for sure. I'll be looking into day trips from other cities too, I'll look into if any of these make sense.

Trains are fast and cheap, so it wouldn't be hard at all to add a city even if I'm not staying the night there. I'm not the sort that normally spends a lot on food, but I really want the italian experience, so I'm probably going to go a little crazy on this regard. I'll have to look into bologna's food scene, should be an easy day trip from florence.

Edit: Looking it up, only 38 mins by train, nice.
 
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the high speed train system in Italy is fantastic, the Freccia Rossa, if you have to chose between a normal train and these, take these. Nice service, they're fast, overall a great experience. Usually they're on schedule.
Great choice of cities, and as Cad suggested, if you're into cars, you should go to Modena. Or while in Milano, ff you’ve got the money, you can head to Monza — they offer Ferrari driving experiences on the legendary circuit.
Except in the city centers, good food is cheap in Italy.
 
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Tholan said:
the high speed train system in Italy is fantastic, the Freccia Rossa, if you have to chose between a normal train and these, take these. Nice service, they're fast, overall a great experience. Usually they're on schedule.
Great choice of cities, and as Cad suggested, if you're into cars, you should go to Modena. Or while in Milano, ff you’ve got the money, you can head to Monza — they offer Ferrari driving experiences on the legendary circuit.
Except in the city centers, good food is cheap in Italy.
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Yea, I'm taking the Freccia Rossa. Every single ticket I upgraded to business class so I can be in the first car and can sit by myself with my bag stored next to me, and I'm still under 200$ for all of the train tickets combined, which feels like a steal. I think the one plane ticket from germany to italy cost more. The only problem I had on booking tickets was that from venice to the rest of italy, a lot of tickets were sold out, so I had to book a super early trip. Everywhere else it was pretty open.
 
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Where did you find your skip the line tickets. I see about a million different places offering them, so I'd like to know a source that worked.
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skip the line really is just "guides" bringing you into the guided tour entrance w/o giving a tour, you can of course also buy a tour + skip the line

must for colleseum and double for vatacan
 
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I don't recall the skip the line thing for the Colosseum, I just remember walking around it at my leisure. There were a ton of people around it but I honestly don't recall the lines. The Vatican we bought one of the timed entrance tickets where you can go in at 10am or whatever and then just walked around, we didn't do a tour.

Its been a while though. Maybe the lines are worse now.
 
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Do they allow iPads in the Vatican? Could just load up the virtual tour and read it as you go:

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Straight from the Vatican: St. Peter - VR Tour
 
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