Sardinia next year

What does she want to do besides Sardinia? You only really need a few days in Sardinia, but it is super beautiful and has some of the best beaches and water on earth.

There are advantages to both.

One advantage is not having to making multiple flights across the pond I guess.

I don't think it has to be one or the other. You could do a longer trip this time and 5-7 day trips multiple times in the future.


If her plan is she wants to see like 5 countries over the 2-3 weeks I'd say hell no. Break it up into multiple trips. I'm a broken record on this but I hate trips that are all over the place, multi-multi-country marathons.

If she wants to do 5 days in Sardinia and then spend two weeks in just Italy, that would be great.

If she wants to go to Sardinia and then Italy and then Greece and then France and then Spain or something like that I wouldn't want to do that personally.

Many disagree with me on here, and this is all subjective.

I think the first Europe trip should be something pretty simple with minimal travel in between. Like staying in Paris for a week and just doing Paris, or the Rome-Florence-Venice shuffle (which can be very hectic if you try to do it in a short time so maybe not the best example), Barcelona/Seville...stuff like that.

Or Prague/Vienna.

Cities with a lot to do, that you can immerse yourself in, enjoy yourself, take it at your own pace, eat amazing amazing food, drink wine that you can't get here for the same price, etc. Maybe take a day trip to a smaller town (or a night or two in a smaller town/city).

And then when you fall in love with that experience, get slightly more ambitious on the next trip, etc.

That's me though and how I experienced Europe and fell in love with it.

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fly in for 5-7 days

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All these discussions always center around "how much time, money and interests" you have.

At least for us, 10-14 days is the max we enjoy in Europe. Our most recent one was 18 days and we were ready to come home about a week earlier frankly. Some people like to immerse and stay for weeks and months. So, what type of "travel people" do you think you'll be? How much money do you have to spend on European questions? What kind of time off do you get from work? Have kids? Some big questions right there.

But, in general, my $.02:

First, you wouldn't have much time in Europe. To get to Sardinia, depending up where you live, it might be a 16-18 hour trip each way, plus transfers etc. So, there's maybe 2+ days off your trip right there for travel. You'll feel like crap the first day there. So, if you're cool with 3-4 quality days there and come home, that's fine.

Can you afford (time and money wise) "multiple trips" to Europe? In our case, we only started back up going after maybe 30+ years. And we said way back when we were coming back all those years ago. Then life got in the way (kids, schools, colleges etc.).

You'll find, once you're there, regional transportation is fairly cheap. You've already incurred the huge cost of transatlantic travel. Once there, you can go about anywhere you want to go by train or plane.

Also, you'll "want to do more" when you're there. Pretty hard for a first trip to just go to one place when "the world's your oyster". You'll have these "hey, Spain's only a 2 hour plane ride discussions"!

I think a reasonable compromise, if Sardinia is truly the place, is take maybe 10-14 days and stay primarily in Italy, but visit some of the great other locations like Florence at least.