This is such a great thread! I'm super new to this forum-style community information outlet. I am also going to be touring Italy next summer and I am going to be starting in Venice. My partner and I would like to go down the Adriatic coast and back up the Mediterranean coast, stopping in Rome, and Florence on the way back up. Any tips that you have gathered from this thread that you might share would be wonderful. Have a wonderful trip! Italy is amazing, you will never want to leave.