The original post: /r/travel by /u/LeglessVet on 2024-11-13 02:34:35.

Me my wife and 8 year old daughter take a trip every year for a month in the summer. I just booked the flights to start off in Budapest, and returning from Rome, the basic Itinerary I have right now is as follows:

land in Budapest and spend a few days there

(roadtrip leg, we will drive from Budapest to these cities and spend a few days in each)

Zagreb

Split or Zadar, havent decided yet, would appreciate input

Dubrovnik

Then we will fly from Dubrovnik to Palermo and spend some time in Sicily

From Sicily to Rome is where I am having difficulty, we could just fly to Rome, but we love train travel and have done it pretty much on all of our other trips these past few years (along the med from Barcelona to Cinque Terre then Venice, all through China…). From my initial search it seems the train from Sicily to Rome is like 12 hours/night train, I was wondering if there are any cool/nice cities to stop along the way to break it up into pieces so we are not on the train for more than ~4-5 hours at a time. Thanks.