re: Won a trip to Rome

Florence is one of my favorite cities in the world, but that would be a break-neck turnaround. If I only have 36 hours or so to burn, I would just spend the extra time in Rome and do a dawn to evening day trip from Rome to Pompeii, Pompeii to Naples to check out the “secret” Pompeii exhibit at the museum, grab a pizza, and then head back to Rome.

I think anything else is going to be more trouble than it’s worth on that short of a time table.

Eta: if you can fly into Florence without much aggravation, that changes the calculus a bit, but it would still be tight.