Sunday, October 28, 2012

Travel? Why Not! Rome, Pizza, Boloney and Salami

Travel
  • 8 hours NYC to Rome non-stop.
  • 30 minutes Fiumicino Airport (Leonard Da Vinci) to Rome Termini Station
  • 3 hours Rome to Pisa via rail.
  • 2 hours Rome to Bologna
  • 2 hours Pisa to Bologna by rail, change at Florence.
  • 1 hour Bologna to Verona Porta Nuova train station.
  • 90 minutes Bologna to Venice St. Lucia train station.
  • Venice to Marco Polo airport by boat (max 1:15)
  • 20 minutes Venice Piazzale Roma square to Marco Polo Airport by bus
  • 9 1/2 hours non-stop Venice Marco Polo airport to NYC.
You could either do a loop starting and ending in Rome or have Rome and Venice as your endpoints.

Sights
Rome
Everything you learned about in school and saw in movies; art and history and religion.
  • The Vatican
  • Roman sights
  • Art Museums
  • Famous monuments
Pisa
I'm not quite sure about visiting Pisa, but they have the oldest University related Botanical Garden in Europe which might be interesting to visit.
  • The Leaning Tower
  • Duomo di Pisa
  • The Botanical Garden of the University of Pisa (close to the Tower)
  • Museum of Human Anatomy, Medical School of Pisa, by appointment
An alternative to Pisa would be
La Cinque Terra
Five villages built on the cliffs of the Mediterranean, only about an hour and a half past Pisa.
The small quaint villages interconnected by regional trains and walking trails are full of Churches, castles (ruins and not), tower houses and narrow medieval streets.

Bologna
A University City with lots of University Museums and fast cars nearby, maybe I'll be able to fit in a track day in a Ferrari.
Verona (Day Trip)
Venice
A return visit, lots we didn't see and it was such fun just wandering around and finding things.
Souvineers
  • Regional Flags
  • Coat of Arms pins
  • Interesting liquors

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