re: European Travelers of the Board

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Couldn't agree more. If you ever get the chance to visit Siena, its unreal. By the way, Milan is shite. Don't bother unless you like looking at concrete and scantly clothed men's cologne and purse ads.

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I absolutely love Siena. When I had a record shop, I used to sell at the record fair there twice a year and always stay for a few extra days. All the medieval mountain top villages in that area and south toward Roma (Orvieto, Todi, Narni, Viterbo etc) are beautiful and, while there are tourists, it's not so overrun that you lose things like the quaint, family style restaurants and just the general feel of "difference".

I honestly haven't traveled all that much to smaller towns in the northeast since I lived in Roma and Cagliari and Genoa for a short while but based on the few I've spent time in (like Bolzano about an hour and half north of Venice and the "vacation-y" Ravenna/Cesena on the coast a bit south, I think it's hard to go wrong off the beaten track.



Also agree about Milan. Great city if you're trying to get exposure for the new leisure wear line you're designing but otherwise kind of a large, gray city that has some beautiful buildings but not worth missing almost any other place in Italy to see.