Already booked a 3-week trip for late January/early February.
Coming from Canada (if that matters) and flying into Paris. Then flying out from Rome. This was actually much cheaper than booking a round trip.
Thus far I've only been to Mexico and some of the States, so this will be my first real vacation by myself.
Want to see as much as I can (mostly history and architecture), so that's why I'm not stopping in one city for more than 4 nights.
Winter weather won't be an issue for me, and I'll be travelling mostly by train (have a licence, but renting for that long is not feasible and I heard the transit in Europe will be completely fine for my intentions).
>Paris: 4 Nights
>Travel through Reims (spend about 4 hours there)
>Continue to Metz: 2 Nights.
>Strasbourg: 2 Nights
>Travel through Dijon (spend about 4 hours there)
>Continue to Lyon: 3 Nights.
>Grenoble: 1 Night
>Turin: 2 Nights
>Genoa: 1 Night
>Travel through Pisa (spend about 4 hours there)
>Continue to Florence: 2 Nights
>Travel through Siena & Orvieto (spend about 6 hours in both cities overall)
>Continue to Rome: 5 Nights
>have a 16 hour connection in Paris, so I can spend about half a day there before I fly back to Canada.
>Wanted to avoid most of the Olympic stuff (been to 3 Olympics already), not sure if most of Italy will be a shit show during this time or not.
I intend to make a few trips to the French Riviera and Northern Italy in the future, so that's why I skipped Nice, Milan, Venice, and Bologna.
I was advised to go to Basel instead of Dijon, and take a day away from Lyon, but I don't know how sound of a decision that would be. Basel to Lyon seems like an odyssey.
Any help from experienced travellers who know good/cool historic sites in France/Italy would be appreciated.
>Most of my stuff is booked, but flexible. Ideally I would only make 1 or 2 revisions to my original itinerary.