Did the same (2016 iirc). Main tourist stuff busy but not unbearably so. Temperature hot & humid. You can get to most places on foot quite easily if you're staying central. However, if your kids are very young I'd give it a swerve as the heat could make life difficult.We are thinking of Rome but are limited to school holidays. Has anyone been in August and if so was it packed and to hot to move around easily? If so we will probably put off until next year.
We did Bologna and Ferrara last July and it was too hot unless your days are in air conditioned vehicles or trying to find routes using the shade of imposing overhead buildings. Stunning place and food if you're open to alternatives to Rome and the motor valley with all big supercar makers are on its doorstep as well as Ducatti which makes a great day out and Florence is about an hour by train.We are thinking of Rome but are limited to school holidays. Has anyone been in August and if so was it packed and to hot to move around easily? If so we will probably put off until next year.
Pompeii is well worth a visit. Go early to avoid the huge amount of groups.The thing about Italy is i have not been to a bad City yet.
For an art buff like me it is brilliant.
Turin,Sicily and Pompei i think are the only main places i have not visited and Venice i try to got over as much as possible.
I also love London,Madrid,Valencia,Bilbao,Berlin,Bergen,Copenhagen and Paris.
Try and visit the Monet Gardens in Giverny on a beautiful Summers day for a lovely day out.
Barcelona is the only place I have been disappointed in.
The boy at work was there.He loved it,he was amazed at the actual size of the site.Pompeii is well worth a visit. Go early to avoid the huge amount of groups.
It’s bigger than we assume. Im glad I went early doors . As I left the trains from down south like a football special. Horrendous crowds.The boy at work was there.He loved it,he was amazed at the actual size of the site.
How was San Gimignano ?
The thing about Italy is i have not been to a bad City yet.
Vatican Tour was the biggest let down in Rome. They kept banging on about how you couldn’t talk in the Sistine Chapel and I expected there to be a hushed reverence when we went in. Instead, there was a Vatican employee on the microphone repeating “please be quiet” every 3 or 4 seconds the whole time we were in there. Awful experience. Felt like a waste of 30 euros.
On the other hand, St Peter’s Basilica was jaw-dropping - and that was free!
SnapThe thing about Italy is i have not been to a bad City yet.
For an art buff like me it is brilliant.
Turin,Sicily and Pompei i think are the only main places i have not visited and Venice i try to got over as much as possible.
I also love London,Madrid,Valencia,Bilbao,Berlin,Bergen,Copenhagen and Paris.
Try and visit the Monet Gardens in Giverny on a beautiful Summers day for a lovely day out.
Barcelona is the only place I have been disappointed in.
I got married in Rome in 2018 at the Campidoglio,Town Hall,we hired 3 stretch limos to chauffeur us all around before the wedding,we stayed at the Flaminio Village which was an excellent bungalow/caravan site a few miles out of the City centre with great train links into Termini station
Just got back from 8 days up in the Andalusian hills,weather was perfect,spent a couple of days down on the costa at Nerja which I would strongly recommend to anyone,plenty to see and do,not as many chavs as some of the other well know resorts on the costa Del sol,watched us demolish Liverpool in a bar my pal runs,all good fun and shall be returning in a couple of weeks
Try Cairo if you ever want to be disappointed again! I can’t tell you how disappointing the Pyramids were, literally on the edge of a housing estate.The thing about Italy is i have not been to a bad City yet.
For an art buff like me it is brilliant.
Turin,Sicily and Pompei i think are the only main places i have not visited and Venice i try to got over as much as possible.
I also love London,Madrid,Valencia,Bilbao,Berlin,Bergen,Copenhagen and Paris.
Try and visit the Monet Gardens in Giverny on a beautiful Summers day for a lovely day out.
Barcelona is the only place I have been disappointed in.
And a shithole to bootTry Cairo if you ever want to be disappointed again! I can’t tell you how disappointing the Pyramids were, literally on the edge of a housing estate.
I have been to sharm el sheikh twice.Try Cairo if you ever want to be disappointed again! I can’t tell you how disappointing the Pyramids were, literally on the edge of a housing estate.
Too true mate3 stretch limos sounds like about the right number of people to me. Top tip for anyone else thinking of doing similar, don't take dozens of your aging relatives with you, it'll be funny years later but not necessarily at the time. If you do take them, don't organise things like day trips to tuscan hill towns because all that will happen is your elderly uncles will fuck off on their own impromptu 'grappa crawl' and go missing in action and your aunties will not be happy with you. Do not let your elderly uncles provide impromptu dancing lessons to waitresses or other young women, your aunties will not be happy with you. Do not let your elderly Uncles..well you get the idea.
I’d love to see the Pyramids. I’m under no illusion about the fact they seem to be adjacent to a giant shit hole but it is what it is - a magnificent set of structuresI have been to sharm el sheikh twice.
Brilliant holidays until you moved out of the complex.
They had trips to the Pyramids and not one person seemed to say it was great.In fact the best I got was it was okay.
There is one in Stockport that sounds like its in a similar surroundings.I’d love to see the Pyramids. I’m under no illusion about the fact they seem to be adjacent to a giant shit hole but it is what it is - a magnificent set of structures
I worked in that Pyramid. One of bosses was Egyptian tooThere is one in Stockport that sounds like its in a similar surroundings.
Absolute shithole!And a shithole to boot