Please review and let me know of any improvements that I can make. We will have a rental car the whole time.

Day 1- Arrive Cagliari, pick up rental car at airport. 3 nights Cagliari. Tour Cagliari; Archaeological Museum, Cathedral

Day 2 Cagliari- Day trip to Costa Verde, go to Fluminimaggiore to see Tempio di Antas (Roman Temple).

Day 3 Cagliari- Tour Roman ruins at Nora/Pula, Villasimius/Costa Rey

Day 4 Drive to Alghero. (124 miles). 3 nights in Alghero. On way to Alghero tour Sinis Peninsula, ancient city of Tharros.

Day 5 Alghero- Go to Capo Caccia, go to Grotta di Nettuno Caves. Do boat tour.

Day 6 Day trip from Alghero- Tour the town of Bosa. Visit the site Nuraghe Santu Antine

Day 7 Drive to Porto Cervo area, 104 miles- 4 nights. On the way see Castelsardo, 42 miles from Alghero.

Day 8 Porto Cervo- Take car ferry to the island of La Maddalena. Visit Garibaldi?s house and compound on Caprera Island.

Day 9 Porto Cervo- Day trip to Bonifacio, Corsica.

Day 10 Porto Cervo- Day trip (90 miles away) to Cala Gonone, take boat tour

Day 11 Day free to sitesee- Take overnight ferry from Palau-Naples (taking car w/us)

Day 12 Drive from Naples to Maratea (135 miles). 2 nights here.

Day 13 Day trip from Maratea- Tour ancient site of Paestum

Day 14 Drive to Calabria (153 miles). Last 7 nights in Calabria to see family. Hopefully this time around I will be able to do a day trip to Tropea, and will be in my family's home town for the biggest festival that they have there, San Rocco.

Thanks!

Sounds great. My personal feeling was that I didn't like Porto Cervo -- reminded me too much of home in Florida -- too developed and "non Italian". We loved our stay in La Maddalena. My opinion would be to use that as the four day base for those trips rather than Porto Cervo -- but that's just me.

My first plan was to spend the 4 nights in the Cala Gonone area. But then I found these websites:

http://www.lequerce.com/e_index.html
http://www.agriturismo-agrisole.com/inglese.htm

I've e-mailed them and I haven't heard back, as with most of the places I've e-mailed in Sardinia! Anyway, they both appealed to me I decided maybe to stay in this area. But, it's still up in the air.

Have you checked ferry schedules? The Palau-Napoli service runs only twice a week (www.medmarnavi.it). Otherwise, the nearest alternative is Olbia-Civitavecchia which has several services daily (www.tirrenia.it, www.mobylines.it or www.corsicaferries.com).

I had checked out

http://www.fun.informare.it/ferry/la...uro-napauk.asp

For the Palau-Naples ferry. It's leaving the day before I had planned to- I'll check the other sites, thanks. Is there anyway to buy the tickets before I get to Sardinia?

OK, so I've answered my own question. they actually do have a ferry the day I need it, and they can be purchased on the site I've mentioned. Any ideas as to how far in advance I should purchase?

AP - If you're going in high season I would book as far in advance as possible, especially as Palau-Naples is such an infrequent service. The Sardinia ferries are usually very busy in summer ...

As regards Porto Cervo - I felt the same as Patrick. It seemed very fake - designed for the 'beautiful people' to park their yachts ... with *prices* to match.

Steve

AP: you left out Barumini, which you can see on Day 4, before seeing Sinis.

On Day 3, it would be worth your while to see the Baia di Chia, a few miles south of Pula/Nora.

I'll take into consideration all your thoughts, thanks!

I posted this on slowtrav for you but i'm not sure if you saw it:

Well first off, you're going in August, so expect very crowded beaches. You probably already knew that, but I was particularly turned off by Alghero when I was there. The beaches in Oristano province are generally very uncrowded and just as nice. I'd much rather stay in untouristed Oristano and see all the beautiful stuff around it than Alghero, but that's just me.

And I'm not sure how big of a beach person you are, but Sardinia in August is hoooooot and you're gonna want to be in the water. So definitely stop at Sinis for more than just Tharros, the beaches there on that peninsula are very nice and not crowded (further from the tip of the peninsula the better). There are other extremely beautiful spots near Sinis if you are interested.

Bosa is very pretty. Isn't a whole day thing though. Same for the Nettuno's, it's like a 30 minute tour. But the walk to the grotto is very nice (take the stairs if you can, great views).

Porto Cervo is a nice area, the town of Santa Teresa is very pretty. Lot of well-to-do people there and nice nightlife. And right next door is one of Sardinia's best secrets, the Valle della Luna (you can see some pics of it if you go to my pic site http://www.pbase.com/overthere/summertrip&page=4 or by going to my folder at the slowtrips part of this site).

Porto Cervo to Orosei is a long car ride. 90 Sardinian miles is like 180 normal miles - those roads are twisty and narrow. I would try to stay the night and take that next day to see Cala Mariolu. If I had to choose Orosei or Porto Cervo, I would choose Orosei.

And Sardinia really closes down in the winter, and is probably why no one has replied to you.

Thank you RAR, I just figure if I don't hear back by April I'll call the hotels that I'm interested in.