re: Italy in March or May?

Amalfi gets WAY too much attention on this board. It's lovely, but the Italian boot has a ridiculous amount of lovely coastline. The Sorrentine peninsula is just one bit, dunno why everyone's so fixated on it.

Go to Puglia....loads of coastline, interesting landscape, etc. Bari is a cool place, and you can take a ferry to Dubrovnik, or to Greece.

Or Basilicata, which is still mostly outside the realm of mass tourism. Maratea is lovely, with mountains meeting the sea & a Christ the Redeemer statue like Rio's on a mountaintop. Also, the inland city of Matera is a fascinating place, a UNESCO world heritage site & the 2019 "euro city of culture".....one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, built atop a network of caves occupied since the Paleolithic (old stone age). Loads of crazy good hiking with spectacular views, yet few US tourists.