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Bros who have done Florence/Tuscany/Amalfi Coast trips: Overhyped or delivers?

GF's dream trip so might try to go this August I've only ...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
Florence is wonderful, definitely go. I only spent 1 day...
Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces
  05/23/18
Cool maybe just a couple days in Amalfi I'm thinking Rom...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
I think you'll probably have to eventually end up back in Ro...
opaque locale
  05/23/18
Yeah would have to do Naples to Rome via train then fly out
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
you can do Cinque Terre which is roughly similar to Amalfi b...
Sapphire affirmative action deer antler
  05/23/18
Personally I'd rather do City-Amalfi-City It's better for...
Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces
  05/23/18
Yeah but seems tough to stuff in for a week I was thinkin...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
if only 1 week i'd personally stick to two spots, not 3. imo...
Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces
  05/23/18
was unbelievably 180 but I was 22.
Sapphire affirmative action deer antler
  05/23/18
Florence has 2 chill days worth of stuff
Lavender sick senate water buffalo
  05/23/18
How long do you have? Florence + Tuscany is a really solid w...
hyperactive impertinent organic girlfriend
  05/23/18
I'd assume we fly out Friday night, arrive Saturday AM in Ro...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
Rome is far away - can you fly somewhere more convenient - B...
hyperactive impertinent organic girlfriend
  05/23/18
that guy from conan o'brien loves it
Flushed cracking ticket booth
  05/23/18
Those are two different trips. Florence /Tuscany / Siena / ...
Green dilemma hairy legs
  05/23/18
Ok yeah seems that way. She wants to hit both Tuscany and A...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
why not just rent a car? you can drive manual, i assume?
racy chrome box office
  05/23/18
It's a lot of intra vacay travel Florence to Amalfi is ...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
What about Florence/Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna (like Parma/B...
Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces
  05/23/18
Havent really thought too deeply. She just mentioned she'd l...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
Why not go for 2 weeks?
Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces
  05/23/18
Tough to do that man. Taking one week in August is standard,...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
fucking loved siena. very underrated. great place to spend...
gay station philosopher-king
  05/23/18
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gay station philosopher-king
  02/05/19
Amalfi coast is beautiful, but very boring. I recommend just...
Blue liquid oxygen lay
  05/23/18
cr. i spent 5 days there and two days in i was ready to l...
Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces
  05/23/18
You should have started hitting the sauce in the afternoon t...
Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma
  05/23/18
we did, but nighttime was dead too which sucked
Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces
  05/23/18
Music on the Rocks in Positano gets pretty packed some night...
Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma
  05/23/18
We were in Amalfi, which yes was a bit sleepier.
Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces
  05/23/18
Rome to Naples by train, spend 1 day copping DAT Da Michele ...
Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma
  05/23/18
She's actually not a big IG girl she's just been brainwashed...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
Positano is picturesque and nice for a few days, although HO...
Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma
  05/23/18
i'm leaving soon on a family trip to switzerland --> rome...
Chartreuse blathering point clown
  05/23/18
Yes CR for families. Naples is a run down shithold run by th...
Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma
  05/23/18
All these places are overrun with Chinese tourists. If you...
Scarlet meetinghouse
  05/23/18
"All these places are overrun with Chinese tourists.&qu...
Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma
  05/23/18
Venice looked like Beijing with prettier architecture and le...
fragrant selfie home
  05/23/18
I rike Amarfi, I rike a Palis, I rike a Rondon
Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma
  05/23/18
stay a couple nights in Capri in the off-season. fuck your g...
Contagious chestnut giraffe parlour
  05/23/18
Whats the off season? Basically not summer?
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
Both, if that makes sense. But it's def worth it. Beautiful ...
fragrant selfie home
  05/23/18
One of my top five days of my life was renting vespas with m...
shimmering doobsian roommate
  05/23/18
Fucking a delivers man
Purple Multi-colored Hissy Fit Psychic
  05/23/18
You sort of wonder why the Romans went around conquering the...
at-the-ready degenerate theater stage
  05/23/18
The recs ITT are pretty good but fuck going to Italy in Augu...
aphrodisiac range crotch
  05/23/18
all my north italian friends say milan is TTT and way too in...
Chartreuse blathering point clown
  05/23/18
Sicily is great, you can go Mt Etna and see for miles. Had t...
dead son of senegal factory reset button
  05/23/18
Fucking lmao at your bird brain wife squawking for Amalfi. T...
comical kitchen place of business
  05/24/18
Tuscany is 180, go go go.
fragrant selfie home
  02/05/19
lol august
coral private investor
  02/05/19
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gay station philosopher-king
  02/05/19


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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:01 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

GF's dream trip so might try to go this August

I've only ever been to Rome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112530)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:03 PM
Author: Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces

Florence is wonderful, definitely go.

I only spent 1 day in Tuscany at a winery.

Amalfi was beautiful, but I was a bit bored. I could see it being a better trip when I have kids and want to relax. After like a day of being there I was wishing I were back in Rome or in a different Italian city.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112551)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:06 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

Cool maybe just a couple days in Amalfi

I'm thinking Rome then Tuscany then Florence then end at Amalfi and then fly out



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112590)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:08 PM
Author: opaque locale

I think you'll probably have to eventually end up back in Rome to take the flight back home. I don't think the airports in Southern Italy fly internationally

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112604)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:09 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

Yeah would have to do Naples to Rome via train then fly out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112611)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:11 PM
Author: Sapphire affirmative action deer antler

you can do Cinque Terre which is roughly similar to Amalfi but much closer to Tuscany. Avoid southern Italy entirely

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112631)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:13 PM
Author: Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces

Personally I'd rather do City-Amalfi-City

It's better for flying in and out, and I've found that I hate being go-go on my vacation and then ending on a dud.

Have you thought about Sicily?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112646)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

Yeah but seems tough to stuff in for a week

I was thinking like go to a vineyard in Tuscany for a couple days after rome, then Florence after Tuscan vineyard, then end in Amalfi

But maybe its smarter to end in Rome and fly out



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112656)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:16 PM
Author: Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces

if only 1 week i'd personally stick to two spots, not 3. imo Rome needs 4 days, and while Florence can be done in 2, 3 is better.

if you're at 9 full days then stretch to 3 spots

you can take day trips to Tuscany from Florence, that's what we did

you will likely need to fly out of Rome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112677)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:08 PM
Author: Sapphire affirmative action deer antler

was unbelievably 180 but I was 22.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112608)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:17 PM
Author: Lavender sick senate water buffalo

Florence has 2 chill days worth of stuff

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112689)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:26 PM
Author: hyperactive impertinent organic girlfriend

How long do you have? Florence + Tuscany is a really solid week by itself. As someone else mentioned, Cinque Terre is an easy add-on - and even just a day or two there is really worthwhile.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112747)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:28 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

I'd assume we fly out Friday night, arrive Saturday AM in Rome. Give Saturday to recuperate from travel basically have 6-7 days before flying out the next Sunday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112772)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 6:01 PM
Author: hyperactive impertinent organic girlfriend

Rome is far away - can you fly somewhere more convenient - Bologna maybe? I did a week trip flying in and out of Pisa (which is a shitty little airport but it's good if you are flying from somewhere else in Europe) and it worked really well. Picked up a car there, drove to Cinque Terre, then around Tuscany for a few days then to Florence, then back to Pisa. No individual drive was more than 3 hours.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36114229)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:26 PM
Author: Flushed cracking ticket booth

that guy from conan o'brien loves it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112750)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:28 PM
Author: Green dilemma hairy legs

Those are two different trips.

Florence /Tuscany / Siena / Lucca is one.

Amalfi is another. There's no point in trying to cram Amalfi into a separate trip. It's a pain in the ass to get to and you'll never appreciate it with 2 days there. While there you can easily to Capri, herculaneum, Pompeii, etc.

Both trips are great but you have to veto the combination.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112766)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 2:29 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

Ok yeah seems that way. She wants to hit both Tuscany and Amalfi but the geography isnt working in her favor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112774)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:00 PM
Author: racy chrome box office

why not just rent a car? you can drive manual, i assume?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112971)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:01 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

It's a lot of intra vacay travel

Florence to Amalfi is a 6 hour drive no traffic

Might work if we just skip Rome. Land in Rome, go directly to Florence. Spend 3/4 days there then Amalfi and 3/4 days there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36112981)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:03 PM
Author: Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces

What about Florence/Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna (like Parma/Bologna)? Fly out of Milan.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113000)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:57 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

Havent really thought too deeply. She just mentioned she'd love to go to Tuscany and the Amalfi coast. I want to see the cool shit in Rome

Might have to make two trips out of it to do both

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113409)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:58 PM
Author: Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces

Why not go for 2 weeks?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113416)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:59 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

Tough to do that man. Taking one week in August is standard, two weeks is decadent

2 weeks is like honeymoon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113424)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:49 PM
Author: gay station philosopher-king

fucking loved siena. very underrated. great place to spend a day and night before or after exploring tuscany.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113342)



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Date: February 5th, 2019 1:29 PM
Author: gay station philosopher-king



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#37729544)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:58 PM
Author: Blue liquid oxygen lay

Amalfi coast is beautiful, but very boring. I recommend just rolling through in 1-2 days.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113417)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:59 PM
Author: Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces

cr.

i spent 5 days there and two days in i was ready to leave. i could only see so many ceramics shops.

it'll probably be a better spot when i'm like 50

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113425)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:41 PM
Author: Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma

You should have started hitting the sauce in the afternoon then brother.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113736)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:44 PM
Author: Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces

we did, but nighttime was dead too which sucked

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113754)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:45 PM
Author: Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma

Music on the Rocks in Positano gets pretty packed some nights. Which town were you in?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113768)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:53 PM
Author: Lascivious Buff Corn Cake Feces

We were in Amalfi, which yes was a bit sleepier.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113803)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 3:59 PM
Author: Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma

Rome to Naples by train, spend 1 day copping DAT Da Michele and Di Matteo, then stop in Pompeii and Herculaneum on your way to some combination of Positano, Ravello and Capri.

Sounds like you're in for a lot of shrew IG photos, is that really how you want to spend presumably your whole summer vaca time?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113427)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:03 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

She's actually not a big IG girl she's just been brainwashed into wanting to do the Amalfi coast by all the hype about it

I want to see all the fun Roman ruins

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113449)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:05 PM
Author: Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma

Positano is picturesque and nice for a few days, although HORDES of NOWAGS will be there by day for pictures. There's a club called music on the rocks. Ravello is beautiful and very chill. Capri you can spend time on the water, lunch at beach clubs and have some chill dinners. If you could go to Capri and Ravello alone and get a group together to rent a villa in Capri that would be CR.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113461)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:06 PM
Author: Chartreuse blathering point clown

i'm leaving soon on a family trip to switzerland --> rome, but i haven't planned anything yet. we have 6 or 7 nights in rome/italy. is your route CR for families? might steal it wholesale

people have told me naples is run-down, ntcr?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113468)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:37 PM
Author: Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma

Yes CR for families. Naples is a run down shithold run by the mafia, but they have some dope pizza. If you're a pizzamo also check out Dar Poeta and Ai Marmi in Rome, they're both in Trastavere which is where you'll want to drink. If you are looking for a nice hotel in Rome outside the normal luxury hotels, most of which are overpriced and not so great, check out HT6. It's a boutique in a (((historic))) area near the river. They gave me a baller duplex suite for like $125/night last summer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113697)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:04 PM
Author: Scarlet meetinghouse

All these places are overrun with Chinese tourists. If you didn’t go in 2003 you missed out. I have a hard time recommending to anyone that they go anywhere anymore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113453)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:37 PM
Author: Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma

"All these places are overrun with Chinese tourists."

(it is everywhere in 2018)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113700)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:47 PM
Author: fragrant selfie home

Venice looked like Beijing with prettier architecture and less pollution.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113778)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:49 PM
Author: Honey-headed concupiscible pistol friendly grandma

I rike Amarfi, I rike a Palis, I rike a Rondon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113788)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:07 PM
Author: Contagious chestnut giraffe parlour

stay a couple nights in Capri in the off-season. fuck your gf on a magestic vista of the sea at sunset while the Chinese tourists flock back to their cruise ships. enjoy nightlife with the locals. shit will be unforgettable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113474)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:55 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

Whats the off season? Basically not summer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113814)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:43 PM
Author: fragrant selfie home

Both, if that makes sense. But it's def worth it. Beautiful country but parts of Italy starkly resemble New Jersey.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113750)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:55 PM
Author: shimmering doobsian roommate

One of my top five days of my life was renting vespas with my bros and riding around Rome.

Hitting a vespa with a car in Rome is basically strict liability, so you can fucking do anything with them: run red lights, ride on the sidewalk, doesn't matter.

We were bored as fuck in Florence. You can only go to so many fucking museums. By the time we hit Florence we were museumed-out and just wanted to party and bang hot Italians chicks and there was none of that going on in Florence. Boomer paradise.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113815)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:55 PM
Author: Purple Multi-colored Hissy Fit Psychic

Fucking a delivers man

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113816)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 4:56 PM
Author: at-the-ready degenerate theater stage

You sort of wonder why the Romans went around conquering the entire western world when they sort of live in paradise

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36113833)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 6:19 PM
Author: aphrodisiac range crotch

The recs ITT are pretty good but fuck going to Italy in August. I would avoid places that are going to be full of bug tourists. (Venice is HELL in August, as is Amalfi.) Would fly into Milan and spend the first day/night there. (See the Duomo, do some shopping if everything isn't closed.) The next AM I would take the train to Como/Maggiore for 2 nights. I'd then train back to Milan and fly to Rome for 3 days then come home. I think this route also would work in reverse (flying into Rome then leaving from Milan.)

If you can stay longer, would consider doing a drive from Milan to Cinque Terre to Florence, then flying to Rome. But that's a lot of moving around. You would need like 6 trips to see the different parts of Italy. (Milan/Como/Cinque Terra; Venice/Bologna/Florence/Tuscany; Venice; Rome/Naples; Amalfi Coast; Sicily)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36114339)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 6:58 PM
Author: Chartreuse blathering point clown

all my north italian friends say milan is TTT and way too international to have real italian character. they say go to turino. fwiw they are young (25)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36114581)



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Date: May 23rd, 2018 9:55 PM
Author: dead son of senegal factory reset button

Sicily is great, you can go Mt Etna and see for miles. Had the best olives in Sicily.

Pompeii is 180 and a whole day.

Rome is great, and nightlife is awesome. Do 3-4 days Rome, there is lots to see.

Lake Como is gorgeous(George), but thats like a 5 day thing.

Take a boat tour through the Croatia islands, start in Split finish in Dubrovnik.

do Plitvices. Its an awkward in and out, but worth it.

damn, wish i was going..



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36115507)



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Date: May 24th, 2018 2:50 AM
Author: comical kitchen place of business

Fucking lmao at your bird brain wife squawking for Amalfi. That shit has been force memed HARD to women. Do not waste your time going there for 2 days in August.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#36117094)



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Date: February 5th, 2019 1:30 PM
Author: fragrant selfie home

Tuscany is 180, go go go.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#37729551)



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Date: February 5th, 2019 1:34 PM
Author: coral private investor

lol august

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#37729572)



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Date: February 5th, 2019 1:39 PM
Author: gay station philosopher-king



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984668&forum_id=2#37729608)