{"id":253,"date":"2020-09-24T15:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2020-10-15T15:09:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T15:09:14","slug":"what-does-a-stunning-place-like-italy-have-to-do-with-a-greasy-bag-of-potatoes-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/what-does-a-stunning-place-like-italy-have-to-do-with-a-greasy-bag-of-potatoes-chips\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does a Stunning Place Like Italy Have to Do with a Greasy Bag of Potato Chips?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gGFPOrpKXLw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 0=\"allowfullscreen\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 When you think of Italy, what comes to mind? Is it the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Is it pizza in Naples with Italian buffalo milk mozzarella and fresh-picked basil? Visiting the Vatican or Colosseum in Rome?\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 I bet what doesn\u2019t come to mind is touring the Lamborghini factory in Sant\u2019Agata Bolognese. Or hunting for truffles near Lucca. Or taking a cooking class in Siena making traditional Florence Ravioli (which is made with potatoes instead of flour). Or how about having dinner with a local Sicilian family?<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Just as Lays so aptly coined the slogan, \u201cBet you can\u2019t eat just one.\u201d I think a similar slogan should be applied to Italy. Italy, in my opinion, is an addictive country. Once you go for the first time you\u2019ll want to go again and again. There are so many hidden gems like Fiesole, Vinci, and Orbetello that few people have ever heard of.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 With an Italian heritage, Claudette, along with her husband Joe, wanted to take an out-of-the-ordinary trip to Italy. They didn\u2019t want to do what I call the \u201choly trinity\u201d of Italy: Rome, Florence, and Venice. They wanted to see how Italians truly live. That\u2019s when they reached out to me.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 In the video, you&#8217;ll see me chatting with Claudette and Joe as they reminisce on their trip to Italy.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Here are some highlights of what you\u2019ll see in the video. For quick reference time markers are listed after each bullet.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u2013 Their thoughts on Italian drivers, pumping gas, and parking meters (3:13)<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\u2013 Their unusual accommodations in Tuscany (3:50)\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\u2013 Joe and Claudette\u2019s optimistic view on losing their luggage and the surprising benefit they learned from this experience (8:47)<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\u2013 What Claudette regretted ordering for dinner one night (hint: it looked like a square piece of plastic) (22:30)<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>LET&#8217;S PLAN YOUR NEXT GETAWAY! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Once you get there you\u2019ll see why I call Italy an addictive country and why I just can\u2019t get enough of it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 Want to travel to Italy and see more than just your traditional tourist locations? Give me a call! We\u2019ll go over your interests (whether it\u2019s history, food\/wine, adventure, etc.) and I\u2019ll design a trip specifically for you.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>I CAN&#8217;T WAIT TO DISCUSS TRAVEL WITH YOU!<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Annie Collins, CTA | 318.445.9111<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 When you think of Italy, what comes to mind? Is it the Leaning Tower of Pisa? Is it pizza in Naples with Italian buffalo milk mozzarella and fresh-picked basil? Visiting the Vatican or Colosseum in Rome?\u00a0 &nbsp; \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 I bet what doesn\u2019t come to mind is touring the Lamborghini factory in Sant\u2019Agata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomtravelllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}