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[quote=Anonymous]Do they have any interest in history or museums?  My kids aren’t big museum fans but  have some history interest.  This is what we did — I’ll say if your teen really have zero interest in history or art, this will be rough and I’m not sure what you’ll do except shop and eat.  It will be too cold to swim in Amalfi so if you go it will be basically eating and shopping.  They might like a food tour since they aren’t so into the history stuff.  And maybe a market like Canpo di Filore?

Day 1 — arrive, acclimate, walk around near hotel, go to evening soccer game at stadio Olympic (get tickets in advance)

Day 2 — self guided walking tour (used rick steves) of historic area including Trevi fountain, pantheon, piazza navona, some churches, stopped for lunch and gelato

Day 3 — early morning skip the lines tour of the Vatican.  I walked around more but kids then went back to hotel to rest.

Day 4 — train trip to Pompeii.  We got the expensive fieccharosa fast train as far as Naples which the kids enjoyed.  Private guide of Pompeii which was just okay — his English was bad and the kids couldn’t really understand him.  If it weee up to me we would have stopped in Naples on way back and had pizza and maybe gone to the archaeological museum but the kids were tired after walking around Pompeii and the early morning rise so we just went back to Rome for dinner.

Day 5 — meant to be colosseum but I need up and didn’t buy advance tickets.  Walked around the forum and palatine hill instead.  Kids went back to hotel after a late lunch, and I walked around more including the Pieter in vinculi church.  There are places that go gladiator school if you think your teens would llle that.

Day 6–catacombs which the kids really loved, and castel San Angelo (beautiful views) after lunch.  If the weather is nice you can do a bike ride out the appian way to the catacombs which I think would be cool but the timing didn’t work for us.

Day 7 flew home.  
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