ITALY Readers's Tips - No way of telling if there are not too many others in a given place you may breeze through, or not.robably not, Venice is chockablock full of people throughout the day the best times to see the town is very early and very late, when the daytrippers are not in yet or gone, and the lazy tourists are still eating breakfast or have gone to bed.ut that's seeing the town, not the buildings etc.hat you list seeing the town on your own, away from the crowds, is at least half the fun, and you can really only do it by notand32; going where the guidebooks say and where everybody else traipses endlessly in lockstep go find your own way from A to B with a really good map and a little compass, then get a little lost now and then and be rewarded by coming across scenarios and vistas that others don't get to see. Just make a list of your priorities and go enjoy if you can't hit them all, don't fret, it would only ruin your vacation.lso the weather will have something to say about that the Murano/Burano trip for example is a goodweather trip.ust go and play it by ear, walk a lot and take the vaporetto when needed.

I'm planning on taking a trip to see relatives who live in Rocca diCapri Leone, which is the province of Messina, not far from Capo D'Orlando. I don't know whether it would be easier, cheapest, or best to fly into Palermo andamp; take the train to Messina; or fly into Catania and see if there's a train or bus route that goes into Messina; or fly into Calabria on the mainland of Italy and take the ferry to Messina Any suggestions Fly into Catania and take the train (less than two hours to Messina Centrale. You can fly on one ticket all the way from the US to Catania, via Milan, or Rome mostly.f that costs too much (nothing under 1k that I can see, try this: Get the cheapest flight into MXP or FCO, then look, completely separately, for a budget airline from ther to Catania and back.dd up the two and see if you save enough to make the additional hassle factor worth your while. If you do that and save, leave plenty of cushion for the connections, and read the fine print of the budget airline about luggage allowance and such. Search at Kayak (click. Trains in Italy are at this site (click. Maps and such at Maporama (click. If Catania doesn't work for some reason, try Palermo the train from there take about 3 hours. Hope this helps.

Rick Steve's suggests that other than July and August (end of May for us, you can go to the Cirque Terre without a reservation and find a room by asking around (he states you need to get there before 12:00.This is great for us spontaneous travelers but is he nuts Don't want to spend the night in a train station or someone's closet.

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