Hi! (or Ciao would be more appropriate!) Please give your input.... We will have 17 full days to split between Rome, Venice, the Veneto countryside where we will hopefully track down extended family/visit family vineyard (Dal Bello in Asolo), and Munich where we will do a day trip to Salzburg. I know the train between Venice and Munich will take about 8 hours, so that takes up a whole day. We also want to do a day trip to Orieveto while in Rome. We are NOT into art/musuems and will NOT take an official tour of the Vatican. We prefer the food/wine/people/architecture. My questions are: should we travel between Rome and Venice on a Sunday or Monday? I've heard comments about both being slow days, but we prefer to travel on the slowest. Also, if we travel on Sunday, that gives us only 3 full days in Rome not counting the day trip to Orvieto. Enough time? Overall, what breakdowns of those 17 days would you recommend in each location? We will have a car to roam around Veneto but otherwise will be by train until we fly out of Munich. (Two of us have been to Munich before...) Thanks for any feedback you may have!
Posted by
Carbondale, IL, USA
1201 posts
I personally give more to weight to finding and exploring your own family heritage than sightseeing Roman ruins. So three days Rome would be OK. also consider visiting Orvieto on the way to Venice instead of a daytrip from Rome. Looks like about slightly more than an hour from Rome and then about 5 hours from Orvieto to Venice.
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
7737 posts
What time of year?
Posted by
OP
Austin, Texas, USA
75 posts
Oops, that would help...last three weeks of May!! Not too long from now!!!
Posted by
Toledo
653 posts
Celeste, since last year, most museums are closed on Monday, so if you do want to visit a museum, Monday is a good day for a long train trip. If it doesn't matter, I would still recommend traveling on Monday to avoid the weekend train crowd (Trenitalia periodically runs 2-for-1 tickets on Sundays). Venice has lots to do, and there are some great places nearby (Padova, Verona, even Ravenna, for example). I can never get enough time in Rome, but it depends on your interests. Rome is really a lot of neighborhoods and each one has its own character, so you'll have plenty of architecture and food, wine, people-watching. Rick's book has great suggestions for walks (just skip the museum stops).