Culture Discovery Vacations

5 Reasons our Cooking Vacations are the Perfect Solo Trip

Are you thinking about taking a solo trip, but are afraid of being in a new place all alone? Solo trips are becoming more and more popular among men and women of all ages. Solo travelers can be anyone from a young single who is out exploring the world and find themselves to a middle aged woman who left her partner...

The 10 Best EASY Italian Recipes

Italian food is always a crowd pleaser, and it’s truthfully pretty easy to make but a lot of people are afraid to try. Enter Olive Garden. You can make your favorite Italian recipes at home, it’s so much easier than you think. People often ask me what my preference in pasta sauce brand is, and are...

The Siena Horse Race – Palio di Siena

The Siena horse race, Italy’s most celebrated horse race dates back to 1633. The Palio di Siena is not a typical race, the rules are few, the traditions are involved, the rituals are divine, and the fanaticism is nothing short of fabulous. The Contrade So, how do you explain such a perplexing race? Let me start...

Vacationing in Italy 101

When you do what we do, everyone you know and their mothers ask you to help them with their trip to Italy. This is great, I love Italy and I want everyone to experience the real Italy, so I try my best to help my friends-boyfriends-cousin plan their perfect trip to Italy. Recently, a friend of mine had some time...

Bella vs. Brutta Figura: How Italians Judge You

In the United States, it can sometimes seem like we don’t care how we come off to others. Of course, this isn’t to say that nobody here in the good ol’ USA makes a good first impression, but its not uncommon to see people out and about in sweatpants, messy hair, no makeup, socks and sandals and...

We Tried The Mannequin Challenge

If you haven’t heard of The Mannequin challenge, you probably weren’t very active on social media around the end of 2016. Much like the Ice Bucket Challenge, the Harlem Shake and every other internet trend, it came, it took over the internet, and then it left as quickly as it started. The basic...

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Discovering the True Italian life when vacationing in Italy

Some people travel to Italy, see the sights, eat the food, and go home thinking they experienced Italian culture. In reality, the vast majority of these people only experienced a tiny fraction of the amazing culture that...

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How to avoid getting ripped off as a tourist in Italy

When you are traveling, sometimes you can just feel it. You go to pay for something, and you just know that if you were a local, you would have paid a much lower price. You are an ‘unsuspecting tourist’, and they will take you...

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Baseball, Italian Style

On my last trip to Italy, I was hoping to attend an Italian NFL football game. Actually, it was the ‘Silverbowl’. Unfortunately, Paola wasn’t feeling well, so we ended up skipping it. Still, while browsing one...