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#16 | RE: Sweden to Italy tour july 2019 datum

Fri Feb 22, 2019 5:11 pm

Zitat von Fugly im Beitrag #15
Bloody hell!

If I ever go touring in Scandinavia I'm taking a 50cc moped

I'm hoping that a good few hours of autobahn will get the "need for speed" out of my system (for a few days at least) so I'm nice and chilled in Norway

Cheers

Paul B.

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#17 | RE: Sweden to Italy tour july 2019 datum

Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:01 am

I promised myself to do this vacation with a little slack and not over-plan the trip. Thats not the way it's gonna be.
All ferries, flights and hotels have been booked.
Also booked factory tour to the Ducati factory in Bologna and will do a Lambhorgini factory tour on my birthday.
35-40% fun road, rest will be highway (penalty for living so far away from the fun part of Europe).

Any suggestions for nice places to visit in Tuscany?
We will stay between San Gimmignano and Volterra 4 nights, and plan to do excursions in the neighborhood.
Never been to Florens or Siena, so thats a given I suppose.

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#18 | RE: Sweden to Italy tour july 2019 datum

Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:36 pm

Zitat von Bacaruda im Beitrag #17
I promised myself to do this vacation with a little slack and not over-plan the trip. Thats not the way it's gonna be.
All ferries, flights and hotels have been booked.
Also booked factory tour to the Ducati factory in Bologna and will do a Lambhorgini factory tour on my birthday.
35-40% fun road, rest will be highway (penalty for living so far away from the fun part of Europe).

Any suggestions for nice places to visit in Tuscany?
We will stay between San Gimmignano and Volterra 4 nights, and plan to do excursions in the neighborhood.
Never been to Florens or Siena, so thats a given I suppose.

I'd want to visit Orvieto in neighbouring Umbria - pretty hilltop city, home of a favourite wine. In fact, I would have to stay overnight so I could dine out on their truffle pasta and sink a bottle of Orvieto Classico.

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#19 | RE: Sweden to Italy tour july 2019 datum

Tue Mar 05, 2019 5:42 pm

What that man above said, Umbria is a wonderful place to relax and soak up the sun

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#20 | RE: Sweden to Italy tour july 2019 datum

Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:19 pm

Zitat von Bacaruda im Beitrag #17
I promised myself to do this vacation with a little slack and not over-plan the trip. Thats not the way it's gonna be.
All ferries, flights and hotels have been booked.
Also booked factory tour to the Ducati factory in Bologna and will do a Lambhorgini factory tour on my birthday.
35-40% fun road, rest will be highway (penalty for living so far away from the fun part of Europe).

You and me both. I said I wasn't going to over plan my upcoming European tour and there I was last night writing to Ducati about a tour, and making reservations on the Amalfi Coast in late July

. Funny because most of my life I run by the seat of my pants but when I travel I research and plan to the point of it being a little ridiculous...even when I say I'm not going to. In order to slightly lessen the chance of missing a reservation due to weather, etc. I did build in two open days where I can either stay exactly where I am, proceed part of the way to my next planned destination, or all of the way, putting me a day ahead of schedule. One of those open days is right before I head into the Alps in mid-late June, the area I'm most concerned about weather.

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#21 | RE: Sweden to Italy tour july 2019 datum

Wed Mar 06, 2019 9:09 am

Zitat von ranette im Beitrag #20
Zitat von Bacaruda im Beitrag #17
I promised myself to do this vacation with a little slack and not over-plan the trip. Thats not the way it's gonna be.
All ferries, flights and hotels have been booked.
Also booked factory tour to the Ducati factory in Bologna and will do a Lambhorgini factory tour on my birthday.
35-40% fun road, rest will be highway (penalty for living so far away from the fun part of Europe).

You and me both. I said I wasn't going to over plan my upcoming European tour and there I was last night writing to Ducati about a tour, and making reservations on the Amalfi Coast in late July. Funny because most of my life I run by the seat of my pants but when I travel I research and plan to the point of it being a little ridiculous...even when I say I'm not going to. In order to slightly lessen the chance of missing a reservation due to weather, etc. I did build in two open days where I can either stay exactly where I am, proceed part of the way to my next planned destination, or all of the way, putting me a day ahead of schedule. One of those open days is right before I head into the Alps in mid-late June, the area I'm most concerned about weather.

I think you were very smart in making those reservations. We came to the ducati factory in Bologna 2016 and the factory tour was full, didn't know you had to book in advance. Also, finding hotel in Italy costal region in late July can be tricky. Vacation period for the Italians and EVERYBODY will go to the beach... Having all reservations with free canceling makes us have some room for flexibility. Last Italy tour in 2016 we had planned for some Dolomites riding and also 3 days in the Mosel valley. The weather was horrible with heavy raining in the alps, so we stayed some extra days in Riva, and then went straight home.
As Eisenhower said: Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

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