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I'll be adding more
anecdotes, so you may want to come back to this page from time to
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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! |
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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
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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…. |
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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. |
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