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Hello Ricardz. Welcome to Flyer Talk and the Italy Forum!

I wouldn't be thinking about adding, I'd be thinking about what you could be crossing off your list. If you try to squeeze in all the places you hear good things about, you won't have time to see anything when you get to those places.

To start, you might want to cross off Cinque Terre, which is really, really packed in July. If the Ligurian Coast is on your bucket list, then you might alternatively cross off Sorrento, Capri, Positano, Amalfi, capri and Ravello.

BTW, how can you see Positano, Amalfi, and Ravello in one day? Are you planning on just driving through these places, or actually trying to enjoy what they have to offer? The purpose of going to Positano in July is to lie on the beach, get hot, jump in the water then eat a gelato to cool off, and repeat. Then watch the sunset while having a glass of wine high up on the side of the hill, then eat seafood, and stroll in the warm summer breeze. If you try to see those 3 cities in one day, you will just be spending the whole day stuck in traffic trying to get from Positano to Ravello and back.

Naples really isn't a one-day city. It's the third largest city in Italy. It's also a lot different from Rome and Florence. It's not the version of Italy polished up for tourists; it is very, very real, and not touristy at all. Not everyone can deal with it, but it gives you a real deep sense of Italy. If you are into art, in some ways, in July you'd be better off there than in the Uffizi or Vatican Museums. Unless you cut some things out of this itinerary, you'll be in a city with some of the best food and pastry you could ever have in your life, and all you'll have time for is a stroll along the shore, a pizza and a sfogliatella, and to pack your bags for the next morning.

It's best not to plan by making a list of all of the best places, then trying to cram them all in. You're itinerary has you seeing Sorrento, pretty much the whole Amalfi Coast, and the Island of Capri in two days. On day 13, it's all Pompeii. Are you going to sleep there? Pompeii is a half-day trip from Naples. You can be back to Naples by late afternoon, do some more strolling and eating. The next day you can take the high speed ferry from Naples to Capri that gets you there in 50 minutes. In the afternoon you can take the high speed ferry to Positano that gets you there in 20 minutes. You'd at least have two days and a morning in Naples, and an evening and a full day in Positano.

This itinerary works much better if you decide which coast is more important to you, Liguria, or Amalfi. You can't do it all. If you do that, a half-day trip to San Gimignano from Florence, and half-day trip to Orvieto from Rome become feasible because you will have saved a few days. Cooling the jets so that on days 14 and 15, instead of trying to visit five places, you cut it to a half-day trip to Capri, and then spend the rest of the time in Positano, will make this feel more like a vacation than a train trip through Italy, where you will see a lot, but experience very little. If you try to do all this, by the time you get to Positano you're going to need a vacation to recover from your vacation.

You really should make some decisions soon on your itinerary because, you have no idea how quickly the preferable hotels sell out. Even now, the best places in Positano, Rome, and Florence are probably going fast, or gone.