My husband and I are going to France and Italy at the end of August. Any tips? Which cities should we definitely aim to visit. We have only 2 weeks.

Question is too general. For example what areas of France and Italy will you be in? You can easily spend two weeks just seeing the major cities of Italy or two weeks just seeing Paris and Rome.

You should definitely visit Paris, Lyon, Bordeaux, Nice, Avignon, Aix-en-Provence, Toulouse, Narbonne, Sarlat, Rocamadour, St Paul de Vence, Chamonix, Strasbourg, Lille, the Normandy beaches, St Malo, Reims, Rouen, Giverney, Colmar, Dijon, Monte Carlo, Verona, Padua, Vicenza, Venice, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, Piza, Milan, Lake Como, Lake Garda, Siena, San Giamianni, Naples, Pompeii, Isle of Capri, Rome, the entire Amalfi Coast, Sardinia and Sicily. <BR><BR>

Kerry, you have a lot of planning to do. First things first: where will you fly into and out of? And what is your budget? What types of things do you want to experience...old castles, big cities, quaint villages, lakeside resorts, or a mixed bag? Will you be driving or training?<BR><BR>We can't begin to help you without knowing the basics. However, for simplicity's sake, you can do this. Take a map of Europe, mark a spot for every location suggested by Mr. "question asked" above, then select the 10 that best describe a straight line between your arrival and departure cities.<BR><BR>Hey, it's a start.<BR><BR>

Thanks. Well, we are kind of late in planning and I still don't know where we'll be flying into or out of. We're not going to be driving. I actually need some help to know how to make the most of the two weeks that we have. I guess we want a mixed bag of things to do. Should we stick to just Italy or can we do both Italy and France? Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

You can do whatever you want. Do you want to stay in only one, two, or three towns and take day trips? Do you want to move from town to towm more often? If you want to see Italy and France, you can do that.<BR><BR>Best approach is to get a good map and get your travel arrangements settled. Once you decide which airport(s) you will be using, you can begin to work on more detail.<BR><BR>If Italy and France were my objective, then I would fly into Nice. You could also plan to return from Nice, or you could make better use of your time by returning from somewhere in Italy, say Venice, for instance. If you want a big city like Paris, fly into Paris but after several days there, take the TGV bullet train to Provence / Avignon and then take trains to Italy. In Italy, on this kind of itinerary, it would be easier to stay more in the northern part, in the beautiful lake and mountain country, not venturing farther south than perhaps Florence & Siena. Then finally, move on to Venice. Catch your plane home from there. <BR><BR>This is the best I can do with the limited objectives you have stated. Good luck.

Only one country!<BR><BR>With two weeks you will barely have toime to see a few things of one of the two countries, o i suggest you to chose the one that attracts you the most. Also, the perfect thing to do would be to spend the whole two weeks touring just one well-define region of one of the two countries: you might spend your whole two weeks touring, Loire, Cote d'Azur, Tuscany or Sicily or any other region of either country and go back home with still loads of things to see. If you really insist on doing both countries, make it only Paris and Rome, one week in each city, but you will be losing LOADS of things

1.fly into Rome and stay 4 days<BR>2.take the train to Florence stay 3 days.<BR>3.take train to Venice stay 3 days<BR>4.take the train to Paris and stay 4 days...fly out of Paris...

Kerry, if you don't know where you're flying into or out of, how can you be sure you're going to France and Italy? Shouldn't you have a better idea of why you want to go to these 2 countries? Or did you just throw a dart at a map?

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