MY SISTER WANTS TO KNOW...
Apr 12th, 2006, 10:48 AM
#21
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 4,702
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Rufus, your Dad sounds like mine except take out the italy part and put in Anywhere USA with 4 whining kids in a Country Squire stationwagon in the hottest part of the summer towing a pop-up tent camper (only after we graduated from a super-sized family tent.)
Apr 22nd, 2006, 11:09 AM
#22
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 13
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
When planning our first holiday abroad (discounting England) my husband and I feel in love with Italy from looking at the travel brochures. I had studied art and Italian at school so it was natural that I'd want to go there, although I soon discovered I'd forgotten all the Italian I had learned. We loved Italy from the first time we stepped off the plane into t he late August heat in Pisa and, several holidays later, we still love it, despite
an air traffic controller strike which left us standed in Brescia and saw us travelling on a overnight train from Milan to Paris with our 7 year old son in an effort to get a flight back to Dublin, and one attempted pickpocketing of my backpack. While we know that Italy, like every other country has it's failings, we still love visiting it and haven't been tempted by anywhere else apart from Paris.
an air traffic controller strike which left us standed in Brescia and saw us travelling on a overnight train from Milan to Paris with our 7 year old son in an effort to get a flight back to Dublin, and one attempted pickpocketing of my backpack. While we know that Italy, like every other country has it's failings, we still love visiting it and haven't been tempted by anywhere else apart from Paris.
Apr 22nd, 2006, 11:44 AM
#23
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 252
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I have just returned from my first European solo trip. I stayed in Florence and Venice with day trips to Siena, Pisa and San G. I fell madly and completely in love with Italy after stepping off the train in Florence.
I arrived in Florence after 3 flights and two train trips (20 hrs.) and it was still breathtaking. I did not find FCO to be the nightmare that I had heard, but then again LAX is my home airport so all over airports pale in comparison.
I do believe that my experiences would not have been so wonderful if I had not planned for what I wanted. I do not enjoy vacationing in cold, rainy weather with short days, so I do not travel in the winter. I also hate swarms of tourists and very hot weather, so I would not travel to Italy in the summer. I chose late March and early April for my trip and it worked out perfectly.
I am already planning my next trip to Italy and I cannot wait. LOVE IT.
I arrived in Florence after 3 flights and two train trips (20 hrs.) and it was still breathtaking. I did not find FCO to be the nightmare that I had heard, but then again LAX is my home airport so all over airports pale in comparison.
I do believe that my experiences would not have been so wonderful if I had not planned for what I wanted. I do not enjoy vacationing in cold, rainy weather with short days, so I do not travel in the winter. I also hate swarms of tourists and very hot weather, so I would not travel to Italy in the summer. I chose late March and early April for my trip and it worked out perfectly.
I am already planning my next trip to Italy and I cannot wait. LOVE IT.
Thread
Original Poster
Forum
Replies
Last Post
kcnewby
Europe
37
Dec 13th, 2017 11:07 AM
carolyn
Europe
7
Jul 2nd, 2002 02:46 AM
