Italy - Travel advice/planning - 3 weeks - Page 2

phatch · #16 06-25-2009, 01:49 PM

No advice for Italy, but this site has travel down pat.

Leisure and Business Travel Packing List - Travel Light with One Bag! It's how Rick Steves does it too. You might borrow some of his videos from the library for some ideas of places to go.

RPMcMurphy · #17 06-25-2009, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by phatch

No advice for Italy, but this site has travel down pat.

Leisure and Business Travel Packing List - Travel Light with One Bag! It's how Rick Steves does it too. You might borrow some of his videos from the library for some ideas of places to go.

Thanks!, I'm a motorcycle traveler, so I err on the side of packing super light.

pic from my last trip.
(its food related!, kinda!)

RPMcMurphy · #18 07-13-2009, 08:58 AM

OK....VENICE.....need a place to stay in venice....would prefer a room in someones house over the hyatt if ya get my drift........i'm not afraid to sleep in someones guest room, just looking for good people, and a fun time!!

KirstenS · #19 07-15-2009, 08:23 PM

Make a stop in Florence, very city-like feel to it. Beautiful. I liked Venice but only for a day. I wouldn't choose to stay there more than that. Tuscany is outrageously pretty. And the food....never ending. The street food is delicious as well, sometimes better than the restaurants. The best is to wander around and take it all in.

RPMcMurphy · #20 07-20-2009, 10:02 AM

Venice --- Check.

Bologna - where to stay?

RPMcMurphy · #21 08-13-2009, 11:00 AM

Coming up FAST!!!!!!!!

So we have booked Venice.....and booked Chianti.

in between we need to book 3 nights in Bologna. any ideas?

This place in Radda we booked for a week
Tuscan Farm Rental - Farm - Chianti Cashmere

i forget what we booked in Venice....

Prefer B&B to hotels...heck I'll stay in someones house/couch.

KirstenS · #22 08-15-2009, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by RPMcMurphy

Coming up FAST!!!!!!!!

So we have booked Venice.....and booked Chianti.

in between we need to book 3 nights in Bologna. any ideas?

This place in Radda we booked for a week
Tuscan Farm Rental - Farm - Chianti Cashmere

i forget what we booked in Venice....

Prefer B&B to hotels...heck I'll stay in someones house/couch.

The Tuscan Farm Rental you booked, I stayed at that exact same location when I went. Absolutely beautiful. The countryside is unbelievable. There's a wine vineyard that's a must go to. It's paradise there.

RPMcMurphy · #23 08-23-2009, 10:31 AM

Kirsten, any recommendations in the area???

ED BUCHANAN · #24 08-23-2009, 11:25 AM

If possible, try and get up to Northern Italy near the border. I found the more North I went the greater the food and service got. Not that there is anything wrong with South end, but North to me was better. Also make sure you go to Capri on the ferry, and Pisa to see the tower, and Pompei. If you can try and eat in mom and pop trattorias as the food was great in most. Have a safe trip.

RPMcMurphy · #25 09-28-2009, 10:14 AM

Italy's done....23 days....fantastic.

so...

how do you guys wanna hear about it? (if you do) ...separate thread? broken up by region?

deciding on how I should do it...took pics of pretty much everything I ate.

DC Sunshine · #26 09-30-2009, 02:22 AM

Oh lordy RPM....you know how to make a person jealous....and hungry!!!

Love the pics of the hanging hams and standing ribs too - not sure how you could categorise it.

Meats
Pizzas
Pastas
Seafood
desserts
salads
drinks/coffee

.....maybe something like a cook book?

mattie405 · #27 09-30-2009, 02:34 AM

Just send me that pizza.........seriously, after seeing that picture I just made some dough for pizza tomorrow night. That picture looks seriously delicious.

Koukouvagia · #28 09-30-2009, 08:29 AM

Now tell the truth, isn't the pizza in Italy the most heavenly food you've ever eaten? Unlike anything that could be made here. Just post the pics, we'll know what they are even if they're not organized well.

RPMcMurphy · #29 09-30-2009, 08:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Koukouvagia

Now tell the truth, isn't the pizza in Italy the most heavenly food you've ever eaten? Unlike anything that could be made here. Just post the pics, we'll know what they are even if they're not organized well.

ok, here is my thoughts on Italy pizza. I did have THE best pizza of my life in Italy, BUT...it wasn't in Naples. It was in Radda in Chianti at Da Michele (now called something else I tihnk now)...but I like THIN THIN crust pizza and this was THE thinnest.

Second best to ME is still Delorenzo's in Trenton, NJ....the rest of the pizza in Italy, was good, and sometimes great, but I would say its on par, aliet sometimes different, than regular ol NJ/NYC pizza.

the pizza at Da Michele in Radda

you can see through it...really.

I had wildboar/Cinghale

i took a video i'll upload later to REALLy show you how cracker thin it was.

I also went to a Da Michele in Naples...supposedly the place where everyone in Naples/Locals told me to go for best pizza in the world....it was actually one of the worst I had in Italy.

I actually had some really good pizza in Venice...actually everyone says the food sucks in venice, but I had 1 really really good pizza lunch, in venice and 2 really good dinners too.

here is the pizza in venice...I'd rate pizza in italy like this

Da Michele in Radda
Venice
Naples
Bologna
Positano/Amalfi, etc.

Koukouvagia · #30 09-30-2009, 11:38 AM

I've traveled through Umbria, from Rome to Assisi and the pizza I had along the way was amazing... consider though that I'm not a big fan of pizza, I refuse to eat "pizza by the slice" like they do here in NY therefore unless I make it myself I don't touch the stuff. It's sooo sweet and the idea of reheating it the way they do really doesn't impress me much. I love the thin crust myself, especially when it bubbles up and is cookie thin. Can't get mine that thin yet but I'm trying... till then I only have memories of when I was in Italy. I remember eating great pizza in Sicily and Naples but it was too long ago to remember where.

People's tastes in pizza has a lot to do with their upbringing it seems. I know people in NY who swear that this or that place is the only place to get good pizza and then I taste it.... disappointment everytime. I mean really, how can anyone claim it's a good pizza if there's canned mushrooms and yellow cheese on it?