I'm trying to nail down a good itinerary for Italy with my nephew in June. He's just started college and likes things like history, hiking and cars.
Here's what I have so far:
3 nights Venice (we will arrive late that first day)
2 nights Cinque Terre
1 night Parma (nephew wants to go to car museums in Modena)
3 nights Florence (with a short stop in Pisa on the way there)
3 nights Rome
2 nights Pompeii/Sorrento
4 nights Puglia (with 2 nights Matera and likely 2 nights elsewhere -- this might get cut to 3 nights if we have to fly home out of Rome)
Does this seem do-able? Any tweaks you would suggest? (I really loved the CT last time I was there and hiking between the towns and think he will enjoy that, but is it worth it to go that far off the path? Better to do some hiking elsewhere?)
We will do it all by train, except for Puglia. We'll either take a train to Bari and rent a car there or rent a car in Naples or the outskirts of Rome and drive there. So we will have a car for that. In Florence, we'll have at least one day trip, probably to the Tuscany area and likely a cooking class, something we both like to do. We want to stay closer to Pompeii to make it easier to hit Pompeii earlier and the stuff there and then possibly hit the history museum in Naples the next day or something else.
PS: I should note that I have been to Venice, CT and Florence, but he has not. But I've never been to Rome or further south.