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Speaker 1: Hey guys, and welcome back to casual chaos. So first off,

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Speaker 1: I want to say happy Fourth of July to everyone,

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Speaker 1: and this week I'm going to dive into my Italy trip.

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Speaker 1: I have so many Italy recommendations for all of you, guys,

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Speaker 1: and I want to tell you a little bit about

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Speaker 1: my trip. So the main purpose for us going to

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Speaker 1: Italy was my cousin's wedding. She got married in the

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Speaker 1: Amalfi coast, but she got married in the town Amalfi,

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Speaker 1: so it was a family trip, but it was mainly

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Speaker 1: a cousin's trip, which was so fun. It really felt

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Speaker 1: like a trip that we were only going to get

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Speaker 1: to do, not once. I'm sure it'll happen again someday,

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Speaker 1: but really rare that we're all going to be in

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Speaker 1: Italy again together. Maybe my wedding, because as you all know,

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Speaker 1: I am going to need to get married outside of

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Speaker 1: the US because my dad is not a lot to

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Speaker 2: Hopefully one day that will.

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Speaker 1: Change and I could have my wedding whenever, but right

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Speaker 1: now I can't. Italy is obviously one of my options.

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Speaker 1: But I learned a lot while I was in Italy

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Speaker 1: and just seeing the wedding process and everything. Because I

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Speaker 1: care a lot about it, I was very observant during it.

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Speaker 1: And I think the biggest part about having a wedding

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Speaker 1: outside of the US, it's very difficult to have a

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Speaker 1: wedding in another country that doesn't speak your language. I

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Speaker 1: think a wedding destination that's a little more realistic is

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Speaker 1: the Caribbean Islands, Bahamas. They speak English, they understand you,

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Speaker 1: there's more direction. So that was definitely a little scary

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Speaker 1: being in Italy, even though most of my family does

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Speaker 2: Italy is very slow paced.

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Speaker 1: They don't move as fast as us in Jersey, so

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Speaker 1: I would definitely say that that's a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a red flag. I also wouldn't recommend getting married in

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Speaker 1: a really touristy spot. I would kind of go somewhere

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Speaker 1: off the grid in Italy and kind of just create

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Speaker 1: a beautiful wedding venue on your own. It doesn't need

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Speaker 1: to be a wedding venue that is so over the top.

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Speaker 2: You could kind of like make it your own.

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Speaker 1: And what I realized is what makes a wedding venue

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Speaker 1: also so beautiful is your flowers and your candles. If

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Speaker 1: you put your budget towards flowers and candles and nothing else,

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Speaker 1: your wedding venue will be stunning.

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Speaker 2: All you need is just like your floral decorations and

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Speaker 1: I swear if you have beautiful table settings and beautiful

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Speaker 1: floral arrangements throughout your wedding venue, your wedding is going

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Speaker 1: to be stunning no matter what. So my cousin's wedding

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Speaker 1: was absolutely beautiful, but I feel like there were definitely

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Speaker 1: some setbacks because of the language barrier and just how

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Speaker 1: they operate in Italy. It just, again, like I said,

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Speaker 1: at a slower pace. So definitely taught me a lot.

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Speaker 1: But the trip itself was absolutely amazing. It was definitely

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Speaker 1: something that I will never forget.

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Speaker 2: It was Christian's first.

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Speaker 1: Time in Italy, so I felt like a little tour guide,

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Speaker 1: like I was showing him the ropes. It was so fun.

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Speaker 1: So we started off our trip in a Malfi. Our

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Speaker 1: home base was Amalfi, which I also would not recommend.

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Speaker 1: I honestly don't like a Malfi. Amalfi's town. There's nothing

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Speaker 1: that's it. You have your shops, your lemons, your sorbets,

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Speaker 1: and that's about it. They really don't have that grade

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Speaker 1: of restaurants in Amalfi. You know, they have the famous

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Speaker 1: restaurant Digema, and there's another restaurant across from La Bousola.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember the name, but Labousla is a hotel

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Speaker 1: But a Malfi itself, I would not make that your

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Speaker 1: go see a Malfi for the day, sure, but there's

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Speaker 1: really nothing special to a Malfi. Post Aitano, on the

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Speaker 1: other hand, I am so happy we did a night

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Speaker 1: in post Aitano. So we arrived in Amalfi. First day

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Speaker 1: spent the night in post Aitano and it was absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: We had the best night. Post Atano is so charming

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Speaker 1: and so romantic. We had dinner at this amazing restaurant,

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Speaker 1: your dinner reservation. It was such an amazing meal with

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Speaker 1: the most beautiful view. And this is the place with

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Speaker 1: the insane cooking class. Like it was, it's wild. It

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Speaker 1: was actually the best food, homemade wine, family style dinner.

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Speaker 1: The cooking class is insane. Wait list over a year long.

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Speaker 1: If you can get into this cooking class, it's so

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Speaker 1: much fun. It reminded me of like Cloud nine in

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Speaker 1: It's a big party, but you're doing a cooking class.

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Speaker 1: And we were on the waiting list for it, but

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Speaker 1: we didn't get into it. My cousin's friends got into

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Speaker 1: it and they looked like they had the best time ever.

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Speaker 1: We were lucky enough to get a dinner reservation there

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Speaker 1: and it was phenomenal. Then afterwards we went to Music

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Speaker 1: on the Rocks, which is the club in pos Aitana.

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Speaker 1: Super fun. It was not prime season in Italy. May

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Speaker 1: is leading up to busy season, which is obviously July

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Speaker 1: July is crazy, but September is like the perfect time

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Speaker 1: to go to Italy. It's not too hot, weather's amazing,

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Speaker 1: but it is still prime season, so it wasn't too crowded.

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Speaker 2: When we were there in May. We got a couple

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Speaker 1: But when we were in post A Tato, that was

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Speaker 1: the only beach day we did. Post Atano. The beach

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Speaker 1: was beautiful, but the beach is rocks, it's not sand,

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Speaker 1: so my feet were killing me running into the ocean,

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Speaker 1: like the rocks are so hot. But that was a

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Speaker 1: beautiful walk to the beach club. The restaurant was amazing,

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Speaker 1: music on the rocks. I would say post Atana was

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Speaker 1: my favorite place on the Amafi coast. Then we went

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Speaker 1: it planned out. But Capri is beautiful. The taxis are convertibles.

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Speaker 1: It's so fun. It feels like you're in a fever dream.

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Speaker 1: They have the door beach club at Capri. They also

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Speaker 2: So there's a to do.

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Speaker 1: You have the designer shopping if you want to go

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Speaker 1: to If you want to do designer shopping, go to Capri.

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Speaker 1: Then we wanted to go to Sorrento for the day,

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Speaker 1: which Sorrento is where my cousin's friends stayed. That was

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Speaker 1: So definitely, when I go back to Italy, I would

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Speaker 1: love to go to Sorrento and Ishka. So I would

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Speaker 1: to stay around the Amalfi coast. It is amazing like

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Speaker 1: those like I've never been. I heard it's beautiful in

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Speaker 2: Don't recommend Amalfi. Then after Amalfi.

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Speaker 1: We went to Florence, and Florence was everybody's favorite place.

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Speaker 1: We did Tuscany for the day. We did a wine tour.

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Speaker 1: We just booked it on a website. It was incredible.

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Speaker 1: We did Chinquiteta for a day and we did book

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Speaker 1: that with a guide because it's really easy. You don't

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Speaker 1: time in each town. There's five towns, so I chinkwe

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Speaker 1: and you know that that's where they filmed Luca, the

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Speaker 1: Disney Show. So there's really cute moments in Chinquitada. Also

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Speaker 1: in Chinkuitada. They are known for their facaca bread and

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Speaker 1: in Chinquitada. It was gorgeous and I we literally we

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Speaker 1: it's a little bigger, but then you know, it's nice

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Speaker 1: to see the other towns too, very beautiful, colorful buildings.

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Speaker 1: So when you're there, you need to try their facaca

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Speaker 1: don't know if this is gonna upset people. I thought

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Speaker 1: it was overrated. I didn't love Venice. I was there

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Speaker 1: Could do your designer shopping there. The food, I did

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Speaker 1: not think it was great at all. We did the

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Speaker 2: I thought it was overrated.

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Speaker 1: Definitely a good day trip if you want to do that,

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Speaker 1: but you don't need more than a day in Venice.

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Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't go back, honestly. We also went to

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Speaker 1: my ancestral town, salaquin Selina, where my family from Italy lives.

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Speaker 1: We had the best time there. It's just everyone is

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Speaker 1: just so happy and full of life. My Zio Antonio

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Speaker 1: probably the most wholesome moment of our entire trip. Family,

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Speaker 1: good food, drinking, It's it's what it's all about. Favorite

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Speaker 1: restaurant in Florence was Los s Crudo. Wasn't one of

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Speaker 1: and it was so good, so good. Theduomo was The

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Speaker 1: Douomo was beautiful, It really was. It was such a

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Speaker 1: beautiful church. It was incredible. Yeah, I would say Florence

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Speaker 1: fun to see fans while you're traveling. And honestly crazy,

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Speaker 1: nothing chaotic happened. Our trip was so smooth and went

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Speaker 1: so perfectly. The only hiccup was our day in Sorrento

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Speaker 1: didn't work out, but then we obviously just hung out

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Speaker 1: in a Malfi did other plans. That's the thing about Italy.

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Speaker 1: If something goes wrong, you can always find something else

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Speaker 1: to do. It's so beautiful. You could find something to do.

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Speaker 1: Go on a hike, go on a walk, You'll see

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Speaker 1: something new every day. Rome it was Christian. We ended

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Speaker 1: It was Christian and Tie's first time in Rome, so

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Speaker 1: we did it all. We went from the Piazza to

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Speaker 1: the Spanish Steps, to the Coliseum to the Trevy Fountain.

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Speaker 1: It was incredible and we had such an amazing day.

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Speaker 2: But same thing.

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Speaker 1: You know Rome, you turned down a different street and

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Speaker 1: there is you know, so much to see.

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Speaker 2: For Florence.

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Speaker 1: I will say, if you look up the best Panines

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Speaker 1: in Florence and go to all those famous Panini shops.

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Speaker 1: They're all amazing. And that was it today on Gia's diary.

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Speaker 1: Let me know what else you guys want me to

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Speaker 1: talk about. But this was so fun and I'll see

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Speaker 1: you guys next week. Love you guys.

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Speaker 2: Bye,