Quote Originally Posted by AussieGiant View Post
TC,

You have to get to Como if you can possibly help it. This time of year is just amazing!!
I've been to Italy before, but this is my wife's first trip so we're keeping it simple with Rome and Florence. I'm mainly a 'cultural' tourist, in that I like sitting in cafes, drinking wine and eating food most of the time, but you do have to see the 'sights' the first time you go to a place, so we've got to do the usual for my wife's sake. We've got a nice rooftop flat rented for about 10 days in Rome and the rest in a decent hotel in Florence.

For next year we're thinking Bordeaux, though I keep yearning for spring in the English countryside. That was going to be our destination this year, but at the time we were ready to buy the plane tickets the exchange rate kept us away. That entire trip was going to planned around a night at the Fat Duck. We'll get there sometime.