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Message: [QUOTE="msf22b, post: 2214896, member: 656"] Just finished our scouting trip to Italy for Geno and the kids. It's all there and wonderful. We visited Pisa, Florence and Sienna, the deep South and stayed a week in a vineyard outside of Rome where they make the darnedest, splendid Red (Colle Picchioni) for 15 bucks or so. The produce is remarkable...everything tastes like something...the chicken, the fish...whatever. I enjoyed the apricots of my childhood; totally unlike the modified [B]thing[/B] we get today. We grilled a piece of swordfish caught the same day. Offbeat hints and notes for Geno: 1. Stay at Picchioni (about $65 a night). 2. Pisa is a splendid city and only the area around the tower is crowded...the rest is yours. 3. Florence is a zoo, but Lucca and Sienna aren't 4. The fortified hilltop towns, are breathtaking (like [B][SIZE=4]San Gimignano[/SIZE][/B][SIZE=4]). 5. Eat at Il Peperoncino in Pisa and Alessio in Roma, great food, fine wine, reasonable prices. 6. Most guidebooks, rental car companies and cruise ship lines talk, try to steer you away from Napoli...Don't believe them! It's vital, earthy, alive, friendly. The Archeology museum is fantastic...All the good stuff from Pompeii was moved there. And the city has as many beautiful sights as Rome and the crowds are all local 7. If you've been to Pompeii (or are reluctant to fight the crowds) you can visit the remains of an ancient Roman city...the old port of Rome...Ostio Antica...much larger than Pompeii and really remarkable...and it's all yours...no crowds. even a decent snack bar. 8. Rome has under-populated areas as well...the splendid Archeological museum; right next to the train (and only a few blocks from a great lunch at Alessio).[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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