Good grief, I've spent so much time trying to arrange our trip next month, I'm losing enthusiasm before we've set out! Ah, well. Such is life with a farm and big family. : ) We'll be in central Switzerland for a few weeks visiting family and plan to take a side-trip in early/mid-September down to Italy with our older boys. Since they are Roman history enthusiasts, that's my destination of choice, but when I dreamed up this scheme, I'd forgotten how far Rome is from Luzern. I'd initially thought we'd head down there in one day, but am wondering now if I shouldn't instead consider an overnight along the way ~ Lucca, perhaps? This will likely be via auto, as we'll have a car at our disposal. Although rail is always tempting, too...
We have about five days total for this side-trip. I'm trying to think...leave in the morning, drive 4-5 hours to Lucca, spend the afternoon and night there. Next day, drive to Roma (3 hours or so?). And in order to have a good couple of days in Rome, we might have to haul back to CH in one fell swoop, no overnight stop along the way.
Just looking for ideas as to how we might go about this such that we enjoy the jaunt. Thoughts?