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I would do a lot of research on Italian sites before you go on the things you decide to do since August is the month when a huge percentage of the country goes on holiday out of town & a lot of stuff is closed down due to deserting to the boonies.
Yes - and the same for Greece, at least before their recession.
I've never seen opinions on one city being so divisive. Specifically talking about Naples, you'd read reviews saying it's great and the food is awesome but then there are other reviews that suggests you're entering Dante's Inferno.
I've never seen opinions on one city being so divisive. Specifically talking about Naples, you'd read reviews saying it's great and the food is awesome but then there are other reviews that suggests you're entering Dante's Inferno.
I've never seen opinions on one city being so divisive. Specifically talking about Naples, you'd read reviews saying it's great and the food is awesome but then there are other reviews that suggests you're entering Dante's Inferno.
You don't stay in Naples anyway. Just transit through it.
I don't see anything special about Naples, especially compared to the spectacular neighboring Amalfi coast.
You don't stay in Naples anyway. Just transit through it.
I don't see anything special about Naples, especially compared to the spectacular neighboring Amalfi coast.
Naples is cheaper though to be fair, or it appears that way. To be honest, the Amalfi Coast had crossed my mind, but it appears to be a lot of work just getting there (for example, flying into Naples, then taking a bus to go to the train station, then taking a train to Sorrento, then taking another mode of transportation to your hotel in Sorrento). I guess that's part of the appeal. We're both looking for a beach vibe, which is why I wanted to combine Mykonos and Tuscany.
Naples is cheaper though to be fair, or it appears that way. To be honest, the Amalfi Coast had crossed my mind, but it appears to be a lot of work just getting there (for example, flying into Naples, then taking a bus to go to the train station, then taking a train to Sorrento, then taking another mode of transportation to your hotel in Sorrento). I guess that's part of the appeal. We're both looking for a beach vibe, which is why I wanted to combine Mykonos and Tuscany.
I usually get private car pick me up at the airport and drive me to the hotel in Positano.
I've been to Venice three times (once in May, one in July and once in August) and there is no city in the world that can top it, IMO! I have never once seen St. Marks Square looking like it did in your pictures. I hope nobody opts out of visiting this amazing, magical, unique city on the advice of someone online.
I've been to Venice a couple of times over a great span of years. Yes, it is a spectacular, one-of-a-kind-in-the-world place, no question about that & worth going for that reason alone if you are a curious traveler & have some interests in Venetian culture. I was fascinated by it.
If however you are "just a tourist", no offense intended, doing a Grand Tour of popular sites & with no specific interests in Venice in an Italy hit & run & during the summer high tourist season, be aware that the last generation of millions of people worldwide becoming affluent added to low cost airfare from anywhere to anywhere have turned a group of small overbuilt islands into a massive destination for millions of first time tourists. And during the summer the canals, full of sewage, stink in the Italian heat & humidity & the recent rise in the world's sea level often means now that St Marks Piazza, the last photo above, is often full of many inches of dirty canal water so that the city officials have had to erect wooden tracks above the overflow water sloshing around in the heat in the city's main plaza.
And if your summertime visit coincides with several cruise ships disembarking visitors.... So be prepared, have a plan B.
Naples, which I have never been to, has always had a rep to be a drive by for most tourists that don't have a good reason to go there, it's more difficult & less tourist oriented. I remember years ago females telling me how difficult it was to walk around because of all the very aggressive catcalling, and worse, from local guys. I have had some people tell me that it is a line that divides into Southern Italy, a distinctly different culture, just like the Mason Dixon line in the US. Personally I would do Amalfi or Sicily myself or one of the more rural coastal regions if you want to go south, Sicily might substitute for a Mykonos visit.
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