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What was your best experience in Italy?
Tell us what your best experience was in travelling Italy? It could be a site you visited, a person you met, a hotel you stayed in or a certain song being played at a certain time at a certain place...
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Permalink Reply by Liana on -
I have fond memories of a boy I met on a train (many many years ago) on my way to Bologna. His name was N.. (no I won't tell you) and he lived in Bologna. He became my tour guide, when in Bologna, and my summer romance. Mmmmmm.
Liana
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Permalink Reply by Kalli Pulos on -
Mine was on my very first trip to Europe many years ago. My partner and I met an Italian family - artist Gianni Massacesi and his beautiful wife Licia, with sweet daughter Raffaella - at a water fountain in Florence and instantly clicked. They fed us a delectable dinner, produced in their caravan, with wine, laughter and conversation. Only thing was, I spoke Englsh, Greek and German at the time, and they spoke only Italian and French ! Somehow we communicated..
We drove one behind the other to Rome, and they insisted we come and visit them in Pescara on our way back from Greece. We did, and spent a wonderful, heart warming, delicious week together.
I saw them next when I literally just 'dropped in' on them - with another man! - 10 years later. The welcome was as warm and fabulous. The original partner, with whom I was whn I met them, has also kept In touch, and I know I would be very welcome there any time.
Ah, memories!!
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Permalink Reply by Liana on
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Kalli, what a lovely story and I nearly fell off the chair when you mentioned Pescara - I lived there for several months a long time ago, and taught English to Italian Adults. We might have been there at the same time LOL
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Permalink Reply by Marianna on -
For me, it's difficult to identify just one "best" experience about Italy.
Italy for me is a magnet with an incredibly strong pull. Therefore, with every visit I incorporate a new experience--such as learning the language--visit new places, and capture as much as I can with photos to create lasting memories.
Also, as I was born in Italy, every time I go back I recapture and relive a little of my childhood, reacquaint myself with my family whom I barely got to know before we left for Australia in 1962, and meet new family members that will maintain the ties with me in the future.
Marianna
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Permalink Reply by Wendy Buckingham on -
So many it was hard to pick out one. This was my second trip to Italy, and I am absolutely in love with it. The memory that immediately comes to mind was stepping out on the bougainvillea draped balcony of our fabulous B and B overlooking Sorrento and there was Vesuvius in all her majesty climbing out of the mist. Awesome. We climbed it the next day and were told it was 20 minutes to the top from the bus station. 20 minutes if you are 20 and very fit and it is not 35 degrees.
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Permalink Reply by Italian Encounters on -
Ciao Wendy,
Your story brings back fond memories to me of seeing this same view when I was in Sorrento last year - Ahhh, the majestic Vesuvius from sweet Sorrento.
Grazie mille,
Liana xx
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Permalink Reply by Liana on
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Further to my Last reply Wendy - have you seen this photo story I did on Capri, it has lovely shots of Sorrento+
http://www.italianencounters.com.au/profiles/blogs/take-me-to-capri...
Thought you might enjoy it, if you haven't already seen it.
Ciao ciao
Liana
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Permalink Reply by Wendy Buckingham on
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Ah. Sorrento. We actually had dinner at a restaurant on that little port beach in your photos recommended by the lovely Pasquale where we were staying. Best fish I've ever tasted. Didn't get to Capri though - the crowds were huge, so we went to Amalfi instead.
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