That would be like me never visiting the Marston Moor battlefield!
Italy is only full of tourists in the bits that are full of tourists. Okay, I'm biased 'cos I have Italian ancestry but if you go to, say, Siena or Verona, go after four in the evening- it's mostly day tourism and they're all gone by then.
Venice, Rome and Florence are heaving with tourists and the trick there is to stop somewhere out on the edge- Trastevere or Laterano in Rome, or somewhere on the Terrafirma for Venice for example.
I have been to Skara Brae and it's well worth the trip but then we spend rather a lot of time in the Orkneys (little for a Romanist up there, however :o)
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Date: 2011-06-24 07:38 am (UTC)Italy is only full of tourists in the bits that are full of tourists. Okay, I'm biased 'cos I have Italian ancestry but if you go to, say, Siena or Verona, go after four in the evening- it's mostly day tourism and they're all gone by then.
Venice, Rome and Florence are heaving with tourists and the trick there is to stop somewhere out on the edge- Trastevere or Laterano in Rome, or somewhere on the Terrafirma for Venice for example.
I have been to Skara Brae and it's well worth the trip but then we spend rather a lot of time in the Orkneys (little for a Romanist up there, however :o)