In this episode of the Passion for Italy Travel Podcast, Joe Mulinaro joins the PFIT team to discuss a recent trip to Rome. Joe invited a guest, his wife Lori, to discuss any positives and negatives she had with this trip. Joe Mulinaro joins the Passion for Italy Travel crew. He will be having a number of guests join him to discuss their trips to Italy. In this episode of the Podcast, Joe invites his wife, Lori, to discuss her recent trip to Italy where they visited Rome, Florence, Positano, and Capri. In this first show, they discuss the Rome portion of the vacation. They start with their pla ..read more

Welcome to your adventure in Italy that you are going to do in the future perhaps next year or the year after. I have been reading a lot lately about how to make the most of life and how to create it and make it happen. Mid life we all need to stop and take a pause. The only good thing to come out of Covid was that the world paused. It gave us a lot of time to breathe and think and assess our lives and relationships. I am sure a lot of people thought about how one wishes to spend the rest of your life. What is stopping you from travelling other than the price? Is it fear of flying? Or is it j ..read more

I read about a young man who had learnt six different languages, so he can easily travel and meet and talk to the locals. He said he has made his life so much more interesting. Travelling really is about the people, the language, the food and yes of course, beautiful places and beautiful scenery. But what use is this if the people are grumpy there and make you feel bad too. Or if you are grumpy…..! One always remembers a place for the wonderful service, the fantastic food or the endearing things that people do. Maybe it also has something to do with your mood – if you are exhausted, feeling lo ..read more

The Amalfi Coast Towns have had to impose new traffic rules due to the large number of tourists flooding the regions. The two single lane road, which was once a donkey track perched high on the cliffs hanging over into the sea is just not large enough to cope with the traffic, resulting in long queues in the summer. The new rules will apply to the 35 km road between Vietri sul Mare and Positano. During peak hours in peak season, drivers will have to obey a new alternate number plate system. If your car’s number plate ends in an odd number, you will be able to access the road on odd n ..read more

You wish to travel to Italy? How do you go about it? Where do you start? Well it is easy – all you have to do is have a consultation with Passion for Italy Travel as we specialise in Italy only.  An email to Contact Us is all it takes.  Our travel agent consultants live in Italy and know the country intimately. We also speak Italian and as Italy is a foreign language country – if you wish to go then try to start learning the basic words for ordering meals, saying hello and goodbye as sign of courtesy to the Italian people. I just wish to tell you a few words about travelling in Italy ..read more

The Ancient Magic Square. The church of San Pietro ad Oratorium is in the municipality of Capestrano about 40 km from L’Aquila. Left of the main portal there is a stone, a relic of the ancient 9th-century construction, inserted into the walls upside down. It contains the so called ancient magical square, formed by five words of five letters each that can be read from left to right, from right to left, from top to bottom and from the bottom to top.  The five words “rotas – opera – tenet – arepo – sator” that mean “everywhere-operates-holds-plow-sower”, have been variously interpreted, and ..read more

Ciao this is Allison Spiegel with Passion For Italy Travel in New York. Happy holiday!  As we start to wrap up a year that has seen such significant change and heartbreak, we are reminded of how fortunate we are to be healthy and safe, and we hope all of you are as well.  While we have been unable to travel abroad this year, nothing can take away our ability to dream about our next travel destination. Vacation days and time away with family and friends is precious, and will feel even more special when the world opens its borders once again, and we can get back to exploring the places ..read more

Hi and welcome to the Passion for Italy Travel Podcast.  This is Lindsay, from the Tampa, Florida office. Today we discover a super, Tuscan experience. Have you ever noticed the power of flavor and aroma to transport you to places far from home, but close to your heart? One night this week it was storming in Tampa. Our usual evening walk was not possible. So, instead, my husband reached for one of our special bottles of wine and we went out on the porch to listen to the rain and dream of Tuscany. Today, we will share with you the winery that has brought us and all of our clients who have ..read more

Today we are talking about the Italian language. Its beauty, its history beginning with Dante Alighieri, and how we can use this time when many of us cannot travel to Italy, to be able to assimilate once we land in Il Bel Paese. We all tend to equate Italy with antiquity, and with such vast history it is easy to assume Italy as a country is quite ancient itself. So, a lot of people are surprised to learn that Italy, a unified Italy as we know it today was only established in 1865. The same year our Civil War here in the states came to and end. So, what about the language?  Well, we owe mo ..read more

Ciao, this is Allison Spiegel at Passion for Italy Travel in New York. Having grown up visiting beaches along the East Coast of the United States, beach culture was not a term we heard often. Summer days at the beach were and continue to be quite simple. You load up the little red wagon with beach toys, towels and enough sandwiches, chips and drinks for the whole family; you scout out your favorite position on the sand and you make a day of it! Hop a flight to Italy and the term beach culture is more than just a day at the beach; it is a way of life, which has been engrained in Italians for th ..read more