My husband and I are celebrating 50 years of marriage and touring Italy for two weeks. That part of the trip is pretty solid and we are traveling with friends in Italy. We will end in Rome. From Rome, we will have an additional week to tour another country - thinking about Salzburg/Innsbruck. We are leaving Europe from Milan. Not finding a great way to get quickly to Salzburg. Open to suggestions about where to go. Help! (Would even go further afield and go home from a different location - but don't tell my husband) Thanks for any help.
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
8293 posts
After touring for two weeks, maybe it would be a relief to be in one place for a while. You could spend a week in Paris or London and fly home from there. A week in Paris is my idea of bliss.
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Bay Area
3551 posts
U do not say what time of yr. if Austria is your first choice then go there.
See Vienna and make your way to Salzburg there are low cost european airlines that may go. Ck www.whichbudget.com for the airlines.
If u are in Italy outside of Summer, ck out Sicily. There is a tour company that I took this yr that did a great relaxing and very interesting tour. After a life of travel to Europe I decided to go and was so impressed. To me it is very under represented.
Posted by
Basel, Switzerland
8889 posts
We will end in Rome . . . . . We are leaving Europe from Milan.
The answer to this depends on two variables:
(a) Is it possible to fly out of somewhere else and avoid doubling back to Milan?
(b) What time of year?
After "touring" something more relaxed is probably good. If it is summer, yes to the Alps. Rome is too far south for a quick train trip north. You could fly to Zürich, Salzburg or Vienna, have a few days looking at stunning mountains and fly home from there.
Next option, one of the big cities. Paris, London, Amsterdam. Lots of cheap flights from Rome to these cities, then fly home direct from whichever city.
Third option, if you have the time and the budget, and assuming your age means you are happy with a less than energetic few days. Fly to Basel (or all day by train), then get a river cruise downstream to Amsterdam/Rotterdam, and fly home from there.
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Whete you go touring in Italy?
Posted by
Edmonds, WA 🌨 ☂
12062 posts
There will still be a lot of Italy to see. And that would make leaving from Milan practical.
Going to another country and then going to Milan to head for home seems like a lot of useless backtracking
If you provide more info of where your first two weeks take you, and for how long, folks here probably can provide some good ideas of what to do with week 3 and make a Milan departure an efficient use of your time.
Posted by
OP
FL
27 posts
We are touring Lake Como, Venice, Florence, Cinque Terre, Cortona and Rome.
We really like being on the go-if we are there, we might as well see it all!
We are traveling in April, 2018.
Posted by
WPB, FL & Firenze
3112 posts
If you're locked into flying back from Milan and want to spend your extra time in Austria, then you might consider flying Rome to Munich and Munich to Milan. Cost should be low if you book early, and trains from Munich to Austria are easy and not expensive. If you haven't booked your flights, another option would be to fly back from Munich rather than Milan.