So this is a rough overview of what we think we might want to do (I know they are all very touristy things, and we don't need to hear oh you don't need to hear the coliseum just because it is famous), most of them are things we saw 3 years ago in a 8 night stay in Rome (with 4 in venice and 4 in florence), but we just can't bring ourselves to go without seeing them again (and very likely see them on a 3rd trip if there is one). So here goes this time we have 15 nights.
Things we have already seen.
Vatican museum's (pristine sistine or something like that) full day.
Coliseum/Forum/Palatine (want to find a good tour of the Forum/Palatine this time after doing the coliseum tour last time) Full day
Palazzo Valentini and Trajan's (with the museum) Half day
Borghese (our favorite museum from last time), and the etruscan Museum there (didn't know it was right there last time I actually have a picture of the building lol) along with the park. Full day
Capitoline museum (will probably do this on the same day as trajan's) half day.
St. Peters (we would just go in with the Pristine sistine tour but we want to backtrack and see some of the museum's that aren't a part of the tour (especially the Egyptian exhibit), and climb the dome. Half day
Things we missed last time
Appian way (with some catacombs) Full day
Castel St Angelo (probably same day as St Peter's) Half day
Capuchin crypt (will either mix this into another day (Borghese day maybe?) or use some of the church time listed below).
Palazzo Farnese/Palazzo Doria Pamphilj. Half day
Trastevere. Long half day (will spend the afternoon/evening there)
National Roman museum (the part with the classical statues) half day
Yet to be determined Churches (we will pass plenty of them while doing other things so I will have to look figure which out of the way ones we want to include) Probably 2 days worth of time (4 half day) spread out with some of the other half days.
We would also like maybe 2 day trips (probably Orvieto and Pompeii/naples, or maybe just one but done as an overnight)
So that is 12 or so full days time (we will see things like the Pantheon (our favorite place from last trip) and other piazza's/fountains wither in between the sites listed above or evening/night (they mostly look better at night anyway). We were thinking of just leaving the other 2 days time (probably split up into 4 half days of wonder time).
So my question is, does that seem like a slow enough pace (I figure that the half days used for churches won't be to hectic if we keep it to one church each half day).
Well there it is, hopefully it makes sense.