We are landing Athens April 2007.
Spending 5 nights Athens to do the tourist stuff.
Down to Piraeus to catch ferry to Sifnos...maybe 4 nights
Then short ferry ride to Milos with another 4 nights
From Milos over to Santorini for 3 nights.
Our big expense is to fly from Santorini to Rhodes for 4 nights
Hopefully by booking early & well in advance we can get a good deal.
After Rhodes short ferry ride to Kos for a few more days before heading
back to Athens on an overnight ferry.
From Athens we'll take the bus to Patras to catch ferry to Corfu
After 5 or 6 nights in Corfu we'll take an overnight train to Brindisi.
I believe the ferry gets in early morning and there's a train to Salerno
via Taranto leaving Brindisi around 9.00am arriving Salerno at 2.00 in the afternoon.
We'd probably stay a night in Salerno and then can't decide
quite where to stay next...Amalfi, Positano, Praiano or Sorrento?
We want to spend around 7 or 8 days in this area with 3 or 4 nights on Capri.
We do want to end up in Sorrento to catch Train to Pompeii with the intention
of continuing on to Naples after spending the day (4 hours or so) at Pompeii.
Sorry for those of you who love Naples but we'll only spend a couple of nights here
before taking train on to Rome. After 4 or 5 days in Rome it's back on the train to
Florence where we'll make it our base to do the likes of Pisa, Lucca, Sienna, & La Spezia.
From florence we'll train again to Venice.
From there we're not sure.....
We hope to spend up to 4 - 6 months and would like to think we could get right round the
coast of France, Spain and Portugual...ending up in Paris and back to London.
I know this is huge and we need help with hostels and/or budget accommodation.
We have decided that the Eurorail Pass or busabout pass isn't going to work for us
and that point to point will be better with probably country passes in Italy will work better.
We are really interested in any comments, suggestions, help and advice
Cheers Karen and allan
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