So, as always, my planning is very fluid right now. We will be in Italy early Sept and Venice and Rome are on the visit list. (3 nights Venice, 6 Rome). I can change a few things in my itinerary - we will be in London for 3 nights to meet up with my mom (before flying with her to Italy), who will be visiting with my sister in Portsmouth for 3 weeks before we fly over. We had planned on visiting sis for 2 nights, but that may not be happening, so I most likely have 2 extra nights to play with. I would take a night from Rome giving me 3 extra nights. (For the record, Rome is a second visit after a hectic 5 nights in 2008 and Venice will be visit #4 - this is for my mom - she wants to see it...and I love Venice).
So I was debating 3 nights in Tuscany (we spent 2 nights in Florence in 2012, so we'd either base there and visit smaller towns, or stay ?? Siena? Thoughts?) vs 3 nights in Amalfi area (haven't been there yet). I love the country and the coast, and my mom really doesn't care - it's all good. Hubby doesn't really want to go back to Florence, but I could prob convince him to travel to the towns. I am going to go watch my RS Amalfi coast video and probably fall in love with that place to.
So just curious what others think of the two areas and why you may choose one over the other? Would it be cooler on the coast the 2nd week of Sept? (We were in Florence 3rd week of Sept and it was very hot).
If we did Tuscany, the sequence would be London-Rome-Tuscany-Venice-London. If Amalfi, we'd do London-Venice-Rome-Amalfi (back to Rome for flight)-London. (We have to catch a connecting anyways to fly home...if we fly home from Italy, we either connect thru London with about a 2.5 hr window, or have to make 2 connections thru various places (Zurich or Frankfurt then Montreal or Toronto). I rather just fly back to London the day before our flight home and get a direct flight to Halifax instead of messing with connections. It isn't any more expensive, and my mom - and I - wouldn't be freaking out about missing connections)