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I'll be adding more anecdotes, so you may want to come back to this page from time to time...
A lot of the visitors who tour Italy, from non-European countries, really don’t come prepared. I decided therefore to add a new page to my website. A page where I would write anecdotes which could help the average tourist, and especially those coming from overseas, to prepare for his trip. I'm hoping that, visiting my website to see what tours I offer, one could be intrigued by a button saying “anecdotes” and click on it. My beloved tourist, at the bottom of this page you find the titles of my anecdotes, please click on them and read them! Torists in Pompeii
Italy Today everybody's always in such a hurry that they can’t take the time to read about a country before visiting it. They just go. "We travel to learn, so we’ll learn when we get there!" They say. Who, these days, would have the time to go to a library, borrow books about Italy and read them before coming here? And those visiting more than just one country? Take cruisers for example; they’re practically in a different country every day! How in the world can they be  expected to find the time to study about the ten different countries they’ll be visiting during their ten-day cruise? So, most people just hop on a plane and go, without even taking a look at a map to see where they’re going before they go. After all, think of all the things one has to do before leaving for a vacation: book the flights, hotels, ground transportation, instruct the person that will be taking care of the business during the absence, find someone to go to the house to feed
Fido, someone to keep Pussycat, etcetera etcetera… No time to read travel books or look at maps. They're going to to do a tour with a guide at each place, so why bother? They'll ask their guide and he'll tell them!

One question I was asked recently and that almost made me pass out is the following:“ Did the Tsunami do a lot of damage here in Italy?” Maybe if they just took a map of Europe to the bathroom with them instead of sports page of the local paper….

Capri, the Marina
Italy! I thought that if my clients could learn from my website things like: "Why do you get pizza with capsicums when you order “pizza-with-peperoni” in Italy?", then I wouldn’t have to explain it during the tour and we could make a better use of our touring time.