Planning Your Trip to Italy: What to book when
November 19, 2012When planning your trip to Italy, you want to work efficiently. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of online information. It’s a challenge to know what needs to be booked in advance and what can be left open….
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Guest post at TBEX: How to be a travel consultant
November 05, 2012Every couple months I get a request from someone asking about how to become a travel consultant. I’ve coached people on how to do it, and I finally put my advice into this post, which was published on the Travel…
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Italy experts with great travel advice
October 05, 2011A recent coaching client exclaimed that she was so relieved to have found my website and services. She’d been searching the internet for good Italy travel advice, didn’t know which sites she could trust, and was suffering from information…
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Five unique Italy experiences
August 24, 2011Here at Italy Beyond the Obvious, every now and then we get a traveler open to anything. They say: I can go to any place in Italy, any time of year. When and where should I go? I’d suggest planning…
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Book review: 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go
June 07, 2011Let me get right to the point: I highly recommend this book. It’s as useful for planning an actual trip as it is enjoyable to read while dreaming about a hopefully-maybe-someday trip. To be honest, I didn’t expect…
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An unusual client request
February 03, 2011I'm planning a trip for a group of Italy travelers right now who have an uncommon request. They said: We'll have 9 days in Italy and would like to see the main highlights of Rome, Florence and Venice. …
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Five favorite books for travelers to Italy or Italophiles
December 16, 2010The five recommendations below are all on my bookshelf. They are the ones I pick up frequently: the ones bookmarked with color-coded sticky flags, and the ones that I buy again and again as gifts for people. For…
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Italian soccer for the traveler
October 20, 2010Point me to a pair of skis, hiking boots, a bike – or even a sports bar with a hockey game on – and I’m happily occupied for hours. But I am soccer-challenged, so thanks to Jessica Spiegel of JessicaTravels.com,…
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Three favorite Italian songs
August 23, 2010When an Italian classmate asked about the lyrics to a Bob Marley song, it was a lightbulb moment for me. We were on a field trip from Milan to Assisi, and the song was playing on the bus. Even…
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