"Why tour Italy with me? Because I'll make you eat gelato after breakfast. I'll make you sit in a piazza and bask in the sun. I'll take you walking on cobblestone streets for hours. I'll make sure you spend three hours eating dinner and drinking Italian wine. We'll have a picnic on a train.
"There's an amazing amount of History and Art and Architecture in Italy and I'll tell you all I know. It's one of my passions. I'll show you and you will be curious. But the best part is spending time appreciating the Italians' love of pleasure. I'll help you experience the Italian attitude that Elizabeth Gilbert expresses so well in her book Eat, Pray, Love. I will make you take the time for an evening's passeggiata — and another little gelato. I'll have you walking along a canal in Venice until you come to a dead end. 'Attraversiamo!' Let's cross over.
"The real beauty of Italy is that every restaurant is an Italian restaurant and there's a gelateria on every block. You owe yourself three weeks out of the rest of your life to experience Italy. Experience it, not just see it. Treat yourself to the luxury of your own room in a small, elegant Italian hotel. Spend some time in the country towns. Drive through the mountains and ride a train. Eat more gelato.
" 'Il bel far niente.' It is beautiful to do nothing. We'll do nothing in the midst of doing everything. I invite you. Come to Italy with me. It will be fun. It will be an art filled experience. You will like it."
— Carolyn Costa
