Holiday destinations for the accompanied traveller

[Smark]

@ciarancareyshurlingarmy

san gimignano

Looks deadly. I see it’s close on the map to Siena, have you been there? I’ve got an ex colleague from Greece and one of his favorite places is Siena. Where do you fly in and out of to get to San Gimignano and i assume i’d need to rent a car?

[gilgamboa]

@Smark

My sister and her fella holidayed in Sorrento

Unreal spot. Hot and busy in August tho.

[balbec]

Fly into Florence or Pisa. God’s country.

[Fran]

@Smark

My next holiday with my life partner will be to Italy in August, not sure where though. My sister and her fella holidayed in Sorrento and loved it. I’d quite like to go to Sicily for some reason and take in that village where the Godfather was filmed in. Was it worthwhile going there @Bandage and did you go to that village Corleone i think it’s called? How would you rate Tuscany @ciarancareyshurlingarmy?

Sorrento is fantastic but very expensive. Would highly recommend both Sicily and Sardinia. Much more laid back than Sorrento and not as focused on fleecing tourists. The Tuscany area is unreal though, would recommend hiring a car and spinning between the numerous beautiful towns and cities dotted around the place. Don’t think you can fly direct to Florence from Dublin but Ryanair fly to Pisa which is little over an hour from Florence

[Cicero_Dandi]

Pisa to Florence is very accessible by train. The airport is linked to the city centre station and you can get your connecting train to Florence then.

[Bandage]

I have a brief overview of and suggested itinerary for Tuscany over on the lone traveler thread for some reason - do a “San Gimignano” search and you’ll get it. Highlights for me were Florence itself, the countryside south of it in that middle part of Tuscany like San Jimmy and Siena, and some of the little places north of Pisa like Lucca and Viareggio. I had a driver and I think you’d need to rent a car to get the best from the place and to see the smaller places. Otherwise there’s public transport to get between the main cities/towns.

I was in Sicily last summer but didn’t bother with The Godfather sites in the end. I enjoyed it too - presumably there’s a similar overview on this thread - but it was more gritty or something. Tuscany just has that elegance and class I’d associate with myself and yourself.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Greatest country in the world

[Fran]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Greatest country in the world

Without doubt

[balbec]

Just a shame it’s full of Italians.

[anon61956325]

Spot the Muldoons here

[anon61956325]

Without doubt.

[Julio_Geordio]

I’d love to go to Naples for a day just to see if it’s really as much of a shithole as they make out in Gommarah. Seems to be no end of abandoned buildings for them to film in

[Horsebox]

The waterfront area of Naples is beautiful. It’s also an hours drive to the Amalfi coast which is breathtaking. The urban sprawl of Naples is a bit of a shithole alright.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Tropea looks beautiful but is quite hard to get to.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Smark

@ciarancareyshurlingarmy

san gimignano

Looks deadly. I see it’s close on the map to Siena, have you been there? I’ve got an ex colleague from Greece and one of his favorite places is Siena. Where do you fly in and out of to get to San Gimignano and i assume i’d need to rent a car?

Tuscany is wonderful. Stayed in a hilltop village near Montepulciano, Montalcino and Siena. Flew into Ryanair Rome and drove up. You’d need a car to get anything out of a Tuscan holiday.

[TheUlteriorMotive]

@Fagan_ODowd

You’d need a car to get anything out of a Tuscan holiday.

Would you chance the Italian backroads home after a few spritzers?

[Fagan_ODowd]

I didn’t.

[Bandage]

I’m trying to come up with ideas for a 1 (one) week holiday in early May. Outside Ireland but don’t want to travel too far and don’t want the destination to be too hot. Would Iceland be any use? Looking for somewhere different to well worn France, Italy and Spain paths.

[Smark]

If you haven’t been to Berlin I think it’s the best city in Europe that I’ve been to and you could put down four nights there the finest. If you wanted to stretch it to a week there’s a few nice medieval towns in Germany you could visit as well.

[gilgamboa]

@Bandage

I’m trying to come up with ideas for a 1 (one) week holiday in early May. Outside Ireland but don’t want to travel too far and don’t want the destination to be too hot. Would Iceland be any use? Looking for somewhere different to well worn France, Italy and Spain paths.

Have you ever been to Germany?