Our Italian itinerary

This is the route we are following:
Fly to Venice. After two nights in Venice - pick up our tiny rental car and a long day's drive to Riomaggiore, first stop in the Cinque Terre. Hopefully we will have some time for these towns, Verona, Padova, Parma and more. Two nights in Riomaggiore give us time to walk the trail between five coastal cliff towns. Then on to Firenze. Next stop Siena. Somewhere in there we will take at least a brief look at Pisa. From Siena we take a longish haul to Rome with our first night in Ostia in order to visit Ostia Antica. Then we drop the car at the airport and the rest will be by train and foot. Three final nights in Rome - hardly enough time to see the main sites. And then home again. Already it feels too short.