Hello there! My fiance and I are working on planning our honeymoon in Italy for July 2017 (which will be our first trip to Italy)! We are from the US and bought great/cheap round-trip flights to Geneva, Switzerland. We get into Geneva the morning of July 4th and fly out of Geneva July 12th in the morning.
What we're looking for:
-To spend as much of the trip as possible in Italy! We really only picked Geneva for the cheap flights
-Relax and enjoy soaking up the culture and beauty of Italy! The mega-site seeing/super touristy trip is for another time.
-I am a huge art-lover (fiance not so much), and we both love architecture and we love just wandering and exploring places
-We don't want to spend the whole trip traveling or city hopping... we really want to enjoy where we are at!
-We both love the ocean or really any water for that matter
Cities/Regions we are interested in:
Cinque Terre, Venice, Amalfi Coast, Florence, Rome
Given we only have about a week and don't want to run around the whole time, what would you recommend?
Option 1: Fly to Pisa --> Train to Riomaggiore - spend 3 full days in the Cinque Terre ---> train to Venice - 2.5 days in Venice ---> fly Venice to Geneva
----we are worried this may be too much traveling and not enough enjoying where we are
Option 2: Basically the whole trip in Venice with day trips to Murano, Burano, Padua, and maybe Florence by train
Option 3: 4.5 days in the Cinque Terre and then fly Pisa to Geneva and spend 2 days in Annecy, France.
Option 4: Anything else you suggest!
Really any input would be appreciated! Thanks in advance!