Face it, I’m back in the states for a few months, so I just don’t have much material for the blog these days. I mean, when I am in Italy, I could write several posts a day, but I am sitting here in Florida, what to contribute to THIS blog?
That said, little things catch my attention here and there, and while I was clicking away on YouTube, I stumbled across another one that had me rolling on the floor.
If you have read deeper into my blog, you certainly know the disdain I have for Olive Garden — actually, any massive chain restaurant, but I am about Italy, so Olive Garden really hits a nerve.
So you will certainly appreciate why I love this video….
Michael Kovnick is the Co-founder & CEO of Culture Discovery Vacations, the small-group cultural travel company he's run as a direct operator since 2006. An Italian-American who's spent 40+ years with one foot in The USA and the other in Italy, he built CDV around a simple, stubborn idea: keep the majority of every travel dollar in the local community, and treat guests like family instead of customers. He's a CTIE-certified travel professional, published in 2025 on the anti-extractive tourism model CDV is built on. He still writes here about the gap between how Americans and Italians see the world... and which side got it right.
Ew! Gross! Mamma luna!
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