How to plan a trip to Italy

Photo in Fornillo by Nicki Positano — instagram.com/nickipositano

For years people have asked me for some help around planning their trips to Italy. So many people in fact I figured I’d just write up a piece on it for anyone’s benefit.

I don’t professionally organize trips to Italy, I just know how to do it from first-hand experience. I first went to Italy in 1989 and lived in Rome for a year. Subsequently I went back to Italy for a number of reasons at least 100 times in the…