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Congratulations on your new M4 and your European delivery.
Thanks for sharing your amazing trip. And I can vouch Italy is worth it! My wife and I just got back from our honeymoon in Florence. Visited Venice as well and spent some time in the rest of the Tuscany region. It's as you describe it, very beautiful, great food and wine! Crazed scooterists lol (hit that right on). Enjoy and stay safe.
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Great read, Thanks for posting.
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Awesome write-up. The Adriatic coast is beautiful, even more so on the Croatian and Montenegro's side. Enjoy your ride for many years to come!
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I did Italy also after the wife asked that we go to Venice. It was great but a little nerve wracking in Venice when the parking garage guy puts the cars 12 inches apart with pieces of cardboard between cars and then tells me to leave the keys in the car. I was nervous and paused and he looked at me and said, we are insured, if we break it we get you another one. I had a 1M and you can't get another one, it took over a year to get the single allocation so I was nervous but in the end it all worked out. People were very friendly after leaving the more reserved Germany and Austria.
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Another tip for you guys who MUST go to Venice(everyone should go at least once in their life!!)... my advice is to stay on a small island/peninsula called: Jesolo (30016 Jesolo VE, Italy) sometimes it's called Lido di Jesolo... its a nice island... tallest buildings are ten stories by local zoning law. Stay at one of the many nice hotels in that area... mostly only German's and Austrian go to Jesolo. When in Italy ALWAYS park in a garage or secure hotel parking area with a GATE! A nice hotel that I like in Jesolo is "Hotel Lido". lidojesolo.com Most every hotel in Jesolo has a reserved section on the beach, with table and chairs. This is a family seaside town. At night(7pm) they close the main one way road that runs the four miles along the beach... the stores stay open until 11pm. Its a nice area. At the end of the island of Jesolo is also a water park called Aqualandria. hey have a slide that you can get up to 135 kph going down this water slide!! NOT for the faint of heart! When you want to go to Venice you can take a boat/ship from the beach or drive to the Southern end of the island (10km's away) pay a few euros(~8) to park your car in a secure area. Take the public water-bus ships(~8 euros for a 24 hour ticket) from Jesolo into Venice. THE only way to enter Venice is taking a boat right into Via San Marco. This is THE way everyone should be introduced to Venice. You can even get off of one of the "other" ship stops on the way. Murano-Burano is a nice island on the water-bus ride into Venice! here are some pics...
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Very nice post. Well said. I spent 3.5 months vacationing with my family all across Western Europe last summer, so I enjoyed listening to your comments and advice (and relating, a lot). Again, nice post.
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Great write MT - how long do you have to wait from hand back until you see it again over the pond?
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I will say this, go to the local side in Florance across Pont de Vecchio, the food blows away the center of Florence since its basically tourist trap oriented.
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My story is like this short and sweet. We land in Florence, naturally we need a taxi to take us to the hotel, so there is a short ramp where "everyone stands in line" to get a cab...strange but whatever. Our turn comes up I flag the taxi guy right, yep he sees me starts to pull up, mind you there is some sort of 18-24 inch curb/wall at the taxi lot this guy cuts into the curb drags his whole right side of the bumper ripping of the rivets off his Lancia van lol, wife and I were like . Him, nothing not a flinch, he slides open his sliding door seems like he shoves us in, tosses our luggage every wich way and after I tell him the adress it was F1 qualifying all the way to hotel Calzaiuoli. ANd I bullshit you not, upon our travels in Florence, every car had a dent, scrape, gash or whatever form of bumper car damage comes in the Tuscany region. I managed to find a diamond in the rough that didnt have much damge however it just happend to be a 1er. Oh and that white Mr. Bean car thing lmao
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Awesome write up and congrats!
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As a BMW Sales Representative, I must say, we need more customers like you.
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I just got confirmed for September 22nd pickup date, booked my flight to land September 21st. I'm staying in Munich with a friend I've met at work here in Siemens (Houston)......September 22nd is the start of Oktoberfest. I was thinking of just staying in Germany for a lot of my trip. But after reading through this thread, I will most definitely be taking my M3 to italy now.
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