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Greetings all,
My wife and I and a couple of friends are traveling to Northern Italy in May & June. We have a week set aside to tour Tuscany & Umbria at the end of our trip. I know that isn't enough time but what can you do? Anyhow, we will have spent four days in Florence and one night in Sienna before our Tuscany/Umbria week begins. We're thinking of two nights in Radda from which we can visit the Chianti region & San Gimignano as well as Montalcino and Montepulciano before heading for Cortona. That's where my problems begin. We'll have five days & nights to spend between Cortona, Assisi, Orvieto, Gubbio, Bevagna, etc. How do we allocate that time? I'd appreciate any thoughts and suggestions. Rich Treakle |
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treakle wrote:
Anyhow, we will have spent four days in Florence and one night in Sienna before our Tuscany/Umbria week begins. We're thinking of two nights in Radda from which we can visit the Chianti region & San Gimignano as well as Montalcino and Montepulciano before heading for Cortona. Hi, why not get an apartment for a week between Florence and Siena (both are still in Tuscany) and then make day trips from there. Otherwise you are packing and moving a lot in a very small area. It only takes an hour from Florence to Siena so day trips are perfect. And staying in an apartment in the middle (like in Castellina) would give you time to really enjoy the area. And then for the Umbria and southern Tuscany part, why not stay in Montepulciano and do day trips from there? I have a huge aversion to switching places to stay as IMO it is a waste of precious time. Cristina -- Info on Moving to Italy and Driving in Italy http://www.cristinasweb.com |
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"treakle" wrote in message m... Greetings all, My wife and I and a couple of friends are traveling to Northern Italy in May & June. We have a week set aside to tour Tuscany & Umbria at the end of our trip. I know that isn't enough time but what can you do? Anyhow, we will have spent four days in Florence and one night in Sienna before our Tuscany/Umbria week begins. We're thinking of two nights in Radda from which we can visit the Chianti region & San Gimignano as well as Montalcino and Montepulciano before heading for Cortona. That's where my problems begin. We'll have five days & nights to spend between Cortona, Assisi, Orvieto, Gubbio, Bevagna, etc. How do we allocate that time? I'd appreciate any thoughts and suggestions. Rich Treakle Since you've already visited both Florence and Siena, I would advise you to stay around the lago Trasimeno. The advantages are many like good pricing and very central. F.i. Perugia, Gubbio, Orvieto and Spoleto are within good reach and the scenery is beutiful to drive in. Ronald |
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treakle wrote in news:0h3Pb.3548$vT3.2400
@newssvr29.news.prodigy.com: Greetings all, My wife and I and a couple of friends are traveling to Northern Italy in May & June. We have a week set aside to tour Tuscany & Umbria at the end of our trip. I know that isn't enough time but what can you do? Anyhow, we will have spent four days in Florence and one night in Sienna before our Tuscany/Umbria week begins. We're thinking of two nights in Radda from which we can visit the Chianti region & San Gimignano as well as Montalcino and Montepulciano before heading for Cortona. That's where my problems begin. We'll have five days & nights to spend between Cortona, Assisi, Orvieto, Gubbio, Bevagna, etc. How do we allocate that time? I'd appreciate any thoughts and suggestions. Rich Treakle As others have said you are moving more than necessary. The area is not so large. On the southern end near Orvieto we stayed in Bolsena (primarily to avoid the crowds of Rome after our flight and before a longer trip) we were pleasantly surprised at a charming small town on a picture perfect lake and still near enough to Orvieto and the Southern reaches of Tuscany and Umbria (Bolsena itself and perhaps Orvieto are in Tuscia actually). |
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Having just visited Cortona and Bevagna, I would suggest
Assisi Gubbio Orvieto in that order cortona and bevagna are nice.. but much smaller. "treakle" ha scritto nel messaggio m... Greetings all, My wife and I and a couple of friends are traveling to Northern Italy in May & June. We have a week set aside to tour Tuscany & Umbria at the end of our trip. I know that isn't enough time but what can you do? Anyhow, we will have spent four days in Florence and one night in Sienna before our Tuscany/Umbria week begins. We're thinking of two nights in Radda from which we can visit the Chianti region & San Gimignano as well as Montalcino and Montepulciano before heading for Cortona. That's where my problems begin. We'll have five days & nights to spend between Cortona, Assisi, Orvieto, Gubbio, Bevagna, etc. How do we allocate that time? I'd appreciate any thoughts and suggestions. Rich Treakle |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:46:36 GMT, treakle
wrote: Anyhow, we will have spent four days in Florence and one night in Sienna before our Tuscany/Umbria week begins. We're thinking of two nights in Radda from which we can visit the Chianti region & San Gimignano as well as Montalcino and Montepulciano before heading for Cortona. That's where my problems begin. We'll have five days & nights to spend between Cortona, Assisi, Orvieto, Gubbio, Bevagna, etc. How do we allocate that time? I'd appreciate any thoughts and suggestions. Rich Treakle Hire a helicoptor and fly over the places. That way you will be able to make it to all those places on the list. A drive through the Chianti region will take a full day. A drive down to Montalcino, cross over to Montepulciano and return will take pretty much a full day. Perhaps you will have time for lunch in Montalcino. Being old and slow, we spent a week in the Chianti Classico area and a week in Montalcino. Could have gotten by with less time in Montalcino. I forgot San Gimignano. Best catch that on the way down to Radda. Just swing out a bit to the west, stop, run in, and run out.(no cars in the town). It is difficult to average 30mph in most of those areas when off the Auto strada. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:46:36 GMT, treakle
wrote: That's where my problems begin. We'll have five days & nights to spend between Cortona, Assisi, Orvieto, Gubbio, Bevagna, etc. How do we allocate that time? Well, I hate to complicate your life, but I would suggest also seeing Urbino, for its art and architecture but also for the pretty drive. Urbino is in Le Marche, but easily accessible from eastern Umbria or Tuscany. I agree that you should probably split your time into two halves. In the second five days base yourself somewhere along the eastern part of Umbria and you can visit all of those places as day trips. ----------- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
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That's where my problems begin. We'll have five days & nights to spend
between Cortona, Assisi, Orvieto, Gubbio, Bevagna, etc. How do we allocate that time? Well, I hate to complicate your life, but I would suggest also seeing Urbino, for its art and architecture but also for the pretty drive. Urbino is in Le Marche, but easily accessible from eastern Umbria or Tuscany. I agree that you should probably split your time into two halves. In the second five days base yourself somewhere along the eastern part of Umbria and you can visit all of those places as day trips. We stayed in Montefalco in Umbria. Very central to Assissi, Spoleto, Todi, Perugia and Gubbio. Still near enough for day trips to Lago Trasamieno (sp?), cortona, montepuciano and Orvietto. We really liked Montefalco which on it's on is a pretty small hill town with big wine and olive oil production. The town is quiet by Italian standards and has a nice square with outside cafes. Nancy |
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As others have said you are moving more than necessary. The area is not so
large. The others are right. The area is not so large. And it takes up much time to relocate and move from one hotel to another. So often staying in one spot is best. That said, it still takes a lot of time to do some of the drives in Tuscany and Umbria. We stay regularly on the northern shore of lake Trasimeno. You can see across the "val" to the mountains in the distance where Montepulciano sits. But get in the car and it takes at least an hour to drive there. |
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