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Seeking general advice for my trip: Rome > Florence > Venice
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:07 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness leaving nov 5, honeymoon. there for 10 nights. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523621) |
Date: October 25th, 2017 4:26 AM Author: Orchid Lascivious Kitchen Renting a car? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523653) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:27 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness no, just doing trains -- flying into rome and out of milan. would maybe rent a car for a side trip but doubt we have the time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523656) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:30 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant I would do 5 nights in Rome, 3 in Florence, 2 in Venice.
Milan is quite an interesting city in its own right but not nearly at the same level as the other two and since the international airport is way out of the city you don't need to go into the city. |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:33 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness yeah, i'm not planning to spend any real time in milan. we actually did two nights there this past march, when we got rained out on the back end of a mont blanc ski trip.
right now i'm leaning towards 4/3/3. |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:35 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant I'd go 5/2 Rome v Venice because I think there is so much more to see in Rome (and several good daytrips) than in Venice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523673) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:41 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness hmm, i'll think about that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523686) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:42 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant Kind of depends what time you arrive and leave on the travelling days too. Two nights could be anything from only one full day to almost three. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523691) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:44 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness yeah. i think that will be the deciding factor. we've already got rome booked, but everything else is still pretty much up in the air (best thing about traveling in november vs say september). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523694) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:29 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant I wouldn't. He's probably going to spend 95% plus of his time in the three inner cities and the last thing you want or need is a car in an Italian city. Just go by train.
I wouldn't rent a car unless you were doing a driving holiday across the Italian countryside visiting lots of small towns and historical/scenic sites. Even then you need to be a reasonably confident driver able to cope with a stick shift and maniacal Italian drivers on narrow roads.
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:35 AM Author: Orchid Lascivious Kitchen I wouldn't rent a car there again either the tolls are pure rape (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523672) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:36 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant True especially after coming from Germany where its free or the countries where you can just buy one autobahn pass for unlimited driving during your stay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523674) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:40 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness yeah, the highway tolls blew my mind last time i was over there. pretty great roads though. and <3 autogrill. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523683) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:41 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant You haven't driven till you've been on a good German autobahn on a quiet Sunday. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523687) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:26 AM Author: Razzle Crimson Psychic Gas Station found that setting google maps to avoid tolls worked well. more scenic drives and no tolls. also automatically avoids the downtown no car areas in towns (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530429) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:31 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant What we used to do was set our lunchtime or end of day destination in the GPS and then just drive in that general direction taking whatever detours seemed interesting.
That way the GPS is always calculating the best legal route from where you are to your destination which is really helpful in Italian towns which are usually a maze of narrow, one-way and blocked off streets. |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:33 AM Author: Razzle Crimson Psychic Gas Station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530509) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:37 AM Author: Orchid Lascivious Kitchen I found italy really boring and the people were awful. Everything is commoditized and sterile. Just way too much tourism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523677) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:40 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant The main tourist sights are stupidly overcrowded during summer but by now they won't be so bad. And how can you go through life never having seen Rome? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34523682) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:25 AM Author: Kink-friendly rigpig Many people seem to manage just fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530423) |
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Date: October 25th, 2017 4:42 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness the only touristy spot i've been to in italy was pisa, and i had a pretty good time for the four hours i was there.
(been to la spezia, cagliari, and salerno a bunch of times each. and milan once this year for a couple days.) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:22 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness where did you go in italy? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530395) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:26 AM Author: Kink-friendly rigpig I loved Italians. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530427) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:26 AM Author: swollen autistic indian lodge Rome is crowded because it's full of cool shit. I assume you have at least some level of interest in Roman history and medieval and Renaissance art, right? Otherwise LOL this may be a miserable vacay for you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530431) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:29 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness yeah, in rome will focus on mother church and old roman shit and drinking.
florence the usual art stuff, venice the usual |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:30 AM Author: swollen autistic indian lodge St. Peters is not the only church worth visiting in Rome. Make sure to check out St. John Lateran and Maria Maggiore. They're both old as shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530464) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:35 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530521) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:59 AM Author: Arousing meetinghouse (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530701) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:29 AM Author: Razzle Crimson Psychic Gas Station consider day in Siena on the way to Florence. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530451) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:32 AM Author: Kink-friendly rigpig Wish I had done this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530488) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:55 AM Author: Arousing meetinghouse TCR (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530656) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 1:24 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness worth a stop on the train on the way to florence? or would i have to spend the night? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530841) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 7:57 AM Author: Razzle Crimson Psychic Gas Station it's an hour and a half train ride from Florence. Can just make a day trip out of it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34531866) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:33 AM Author: Kink-friendly rigpig Learn basic Italian before you go. It's not hard and Italians are poor English speakers. It saved my ass a couple of times there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530505) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:38 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness i took a half assed semester during college and did spanish in high school, so we usually get by in both italy and spain.
GF is near fluent in french though which is great when we're there. |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:41 AM Author: Aphrodisiac immigrant This reminds me of a funny story about my husband. When we go to Eastern Europe I usually do all the translating because I speak Slovenian fairly well (which means I can get the gist of other Slavic languages) and I did 6 years of German in school which is a very common second language there.
So when we go to France he's all "now I can translate because I did French in HS" and I ask "how many years?" and he says "two" and I respond "I did five years of French". LOL. |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:51 AM Author: Kink-friendly rigpig man you are annoying (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530617) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:53 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness yeah, but his little amount retained is usually good enough for the basics: pronunciation, sentence structure, basic nouns/verbs, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530634) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 2:59 AM Author: Disgusting stirring alpha parlour Wow what a funny story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34531165) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 3:05 AM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34531191) |
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Date: May 31st, 2018 4:23 PM Author: flesh people who are hurt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36160306) |
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Date: May 31st, 2018 4:23 PM Author: Kink-friendly rigpig In retrospect, I was a little mean to 29 and wish that I had been even meaner. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36160307) |
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Date: May 31st, 2018 4:27 PM Author: doobsian violent double fault (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36160321) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:55 AM Author: Kink-friendly rigpig Nice. Sounds like you'll be fine. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530657) |
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Date: October 26th, 2017 12:57 AM Author: Arousing meetinghouse Regardless if you’re an artmo or not, see the Galleria Borghese (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#34530676) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 3:10 PM Author: Adventurous scourge upon the earth What are some (if any) cr tours in Venice? Spending 2 days in august. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36291900) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 3:11 PM Author: Mint curious hall fanboi "tours" are u oriental? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36291906) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 3:11 PM Author: Citrine galvanic corner half-breed 2 days is probably too much in venice
just do 1 day, just do a gondola ride so your gf can take photos, just do some walking around and just do never go back |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 3:13 PM Author: Adventurous scourge upon the earth That was originally the plan, but circumstances now call for 2. What about a boat ride to Burano and other little islands? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36291928) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 3:16 PM Author: mentally impaired trip circlehead honestly, just get away from the main drag (train station to rialto to Doge Palace) and wander to the outskirts of Venice. it's really peaceful and the architecture is lovely (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36291944) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 3:23 PM Author: Adventurous scourge upon the earth Thank you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36291999) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:12 PM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness this is good advice. venice is much more bearable when you wander away from all the super touristy areas.
buy a vaporetto pass. |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:10 PM Author: Silver twinkling uncleanness the vaporetto is the way to go, gondola rides are a huge fucking scam. only people i saw on them on my trip were asian tourists with selfie sticks and gaudy designer clothing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36292387) |
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:52 PM Author: Adventurous scourge upon the earth Tyvm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3774025&forum_id=2#36292982) |