To be honest I didn't plan it... my sister made all the reservations and I just said tell me where I'm supposed to be and when. My flight from Raleigh was via Iceland Air. Air Canada to Toronto, Iceland Air from Toronto to Reykjavik, Iceland then on to Paris. took a bus from the airport to close to the area of the apartment. We rented an apartment for four nights took the regular train from Paris to Disneyland Paris and back. We toured Paris the next day just using the subways, bought the museum pass and went to places like the Louvre, advance tickets to get up on the Eiffel Tower. Then Easy-jet to Venice, water taxi to St. Marks Square and hoofed it from there to the hotel for two nights. Walking tours (independent) and a four piece string concert in a church that was older then this country by a few hundred years. Train to Rome. The train, subway station was really close to the Apartment we rented for 6 days. We used the subway, did one tour involving the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, the Train to Pompeii, more independent touring via subways and tourist maps. The apartments had full kitchens and there was a small grocery store at our end of the train station so we mixed it up with eating in restaurants and just throwing something together in the apartment. Anyway that should give you an idea how we did that. My Sister was absolutely awesome with the details, never missed a beat. She should have been a travel agent. It was always pleasant and the apartments were clean, and comfortable. A lot of walking, but, again we had advance tickets for the Vatican and the papal audience. On the way home, we took a Celebrity relocation cruise back to the states but, the places I listed from Pisa on were part of the cruise and were Ports of Call for the first half of the cruise around the Mediterranean and finally across to Fort Lauderdale. We had an inside room so we didn't have to be on the lookout for icebergs and we were only in the room to sleep the rest of the cruise was either PoC or activities on board. It was no frills except the cruise which surely did feel full of frills. No 4 star hotels or guided tours except for that one morning in Rome. Otherwise we just wander about and saw just about everything there was to see and didn't have to get back to a bus. I found the trains and the subways the highlight of the trip. Loved it!
I wish I could tell you the details of the planning the trip, but, I don't know them. I was just along for the ride. This should give you an idea about how it all went though.
Sometimes referred to as "if today is Tuesday you're in a state of confusion."
