The first time I saw Venice, I was eager to get there. I rushed my family out of the city we were in. My husband still jokes, “Let’s go! We gotta get to Venice!” whenever he tries to get me to hurry up. But honestly, can you blame me? Over three visits—a summer family trip, an autumn getaway with my mum, and a spring girls’ trip—I’ve learned how to do Venice well. This isn’t a list of “top 10 must-see sights”; you can Google that. This is more of a practical, slightly chaotic

After six visits to Italy over nearly forty years, I thought I had Rome down to a science. My first time? The summer of 1988. I was 18, sweating through Milan and pretending I knew how to drink espresso properly. Since then, there have been family trips with my husband and son (2010–2016), a girls’ escape in May 2023, and a few others sprinkled in for good measure. I always planned for what the guidebooks and glossy magazines insisted was “peak season,” convinced that summer

There’s a strange thrill in telling people you’re heading to Naples. Watch their expressions shift from polite curiosity to thinly veiled panic, as if you’ve just said you’re holidaying in a live volcano. “Oh, Naples,” they say, in the same tone you'd use for a friend who’s just announced they’re dating a known heartbreaker. “Are you... sure?” The warnings come thick and fast: It’s dangerous! It’s dirty! The traffic is apocalyptic! You’ll be robbed blind! The garbage situatio

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