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[quote=Anonymous]My kids loved the train in Italy — very comfortable, fast, beautiful views, they being around a snack trolley.  
La spezia to Florence is almost a two hour drive so that seems really suboptimal to do as a day trip from the ship.  
I would do Rome, day trip to Pompeii Naples if you want (but Pompeii will be incredibly hot in summer), train to Florence with some day trips from Florence as a base.  You could probably then get a hop flight from Florence to one of those other cities if you wanted a third location.  I might just fly to Paris and see Paris jnless you really wanted beach time — and if you wanted beach time I might do Sardinia or Elba instead of Nice.  I think Provence will be hot in the summer too.

FYI but Barcelona has had a lot of protests about the cruise ships….so that might be ubpleaaant.

Also note PP comment about the jubilee year….might not be the best year for Italy.  If it were my kids first visit to Europe with kids that age and summer heat, I might do something like start in London (lots for kids there and lots of fun day trips), train to Paris, a couple days in Paris and then Normandy and maybe even Paris disney before flying home (disney is right next to the airport).

Or Madrid with Avila, Segovia and then northwards for cooler weather—if you want the south of France beaches like Biarritz you can get there easily from north of Spain.  You could probably go Biarritz to Paris and then fly home from Paris.

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