A trip to Italy-A clients POV

I Love it when clients do this. If you travel, I would love to share your trip either on my blog or social media, or both.  

I have a client that goes to Italy nearly every year.  She doesn’t need my help in Italy, because she’s gotten to the point that I may call her and ask her advice from time to time.   She just calls me because she always likes to work the free stopovers and add a country or two on the way to or from Italy.  If memory serves.  Ireland, Turkey, Iceland and Portugal have been included on past trips for her to Italy.  This year… I’m so jealous, she’s going to Malta.  Anyway, when it comes to using airline tickets creatively, I'm unparalleled.  I’m really good in Italy, but if for somebody that’s been going every year for many years… they pretty much have it all down.  

She also refers her friends and family to me for a little help with the airfare.  This year her brother went along and as it turns out, he made a lovely blog about it.   I asked him about covid and if I could share his blog (Prima and Seconda), and he said:

“Jacob, as I was posting the blogs it occurred to me that I hadn’t addressed COVID--neither the effects we saw on the ground in Italy nor the complications of requirements for entry and flights.

I did need to be tested for my flights there and back, and the availability of free tests from the library with online evaluation made it much easier than I expected.

It did not seem that pandemic concerns have started to pass. Virtually all indoor places required us to show our vaccination cards, which they referred to by the EU name "Green Pass." Masking indoors was pretty universal, and they had the usual stations of disinfectant everywhere.

You are welcome to steer anyone who might like it to my blog.

--Bill”

Again, Bill, thank you SO MUCH for sharing this with me and  as a shout out to other clients, feel free to do just as Bill did.  Even if you don’t have a blog, I’ll post your images, words and experiences on mine!