Alright, so I've booked a two week trip at the end of April and beginning of May for Europe.
We fly into Barcelona for 3 days, then fly to Rome for 4. After that I was planning on renting a car and taking the long route along the coast (based on the map) and eventually make my way into Florence via Pisa (and whatever else that may be worth stopping for along the way). We only stay in Florence for 2 days and eventually planing on taking a train into Venice for the final leg of the journey. Then we fly back to Edmonton from Venice.
I've already booked accommodations for Rome and Venice and don't want to change that. Obviously, I will be doing all the main touristy things in all of the historic cities as it is out first time, but is there anything special to look out for and a 'must do', or anything? I can only spare 2 weeks and I wanted to do 1 week in Italy and 1 week in Greece but after talking to many people we would miss out on a lot of Italy so we decided to mostly do Italy and threw in Spain as I will be meeting an old best friend from law school there. Greece will have to wait yet again even though it's been on my list for quite some time.
Anyway, welcome the suggestions and recommendations for anything and everything like restaurants etc. For the drive along the coast, without stopping it's a 5 1/2 hour drive to Florence from Rome, based on what the map shows. If I take the direct driving route then it's only 3 hours but I would like to cover as much as we can by car in that day while we make our way into Florence in the evening, having checked out Pisa (leaning tower). Is driving okay there?
Thanks for the suggestions, thoughts, and comments etc.