WEBVTT - Gia Diaries: That's Amore 

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<v Speaker 1>Hey guys, and welcome back to casual chaos. So first off,

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<v Speaker 1>I want to say happy Fourth of July to everyone,

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

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<v Speaker 1>I have so many Italy recommendations for all of you, guys,

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<v Speaker 1>and I want to tell you a little bit about

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<v Speaker 1>my trip. So the main purpose for us going to

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<v Speaker 1>Italy was my cousin's wedding. She got married in the

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<v Speaker 1>Amalfi coast, but she got married in the town Amalfi,

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<v Speaker 1>so it was a family trip, but it was mainly

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

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<v Speaker 1>like a trip that we were only going to get

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

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<v Speaker 1>but really rare that we're all going to be in

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<v Speaker 1>Italy again together. Maybe my wedding, because as you all know,

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<v Speaker 1>I am going to need to get married outside of

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<v Speaker 1>the US because my dad is not a lot to

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<v Speaker 1>come back to the US at the moment.

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<v Speaker 2>Hopefully one day that will.

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<v Speaker 1>Change and I could have my wedding whenever, but right

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<v Speaker 1>now I can't. Italy is obviously one of my options.

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<v Speaker 1>But I learned a lot while I was in Italy

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<v Speaker 1>and just seeing the wedding process and everything. Because I

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<v Speaker 1>care a lot about it, I was very observant during it.

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<v Speaker 1>And I think the biggest part about having a wedding

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<v Speaker 1>outside of the US, it's very difficult to have a

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<v Speaker 1>wedding in another country that doesn't speak your language. I

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<v Speaker 1>think a wedding destination that's a little more realistic is

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<v Speaker 1>the Caribbean Islands, Bahamas. They speak English, they understand you,

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<v Speaker 1>there's more direction. So that was definitely a little scary

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<v Speaker 1>being in Italy, even though most of my family does

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<v Speaker 1>speak Italian, they just operate differently.

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<v Speaker 2>Italy is very slow paced.

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<v Speaker 1>They don't move as fast as us in Jersey, so

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<v Speaker 1>I would definitely say that that's a little bit of

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<v Speaker 1>a red flag. I also wouldn't recommend getting married in

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<v Speaker 1>a really touristy spot. I would kind of go somewhere

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<v Speaker 1>off the grid in Italy and kind of just create

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<v Speaker 1>a beautiful wedding venue on your own. It doesn't need

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<v Speaker 1>to be a wedding venue that is so over the top.

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<v Speaker 2>You could kind of like make it your own.

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<v Speaker 1>And what I realized is what makes a wedding venue

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<v Speaker 1>also so beautiful is your flowers and your candles. If

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<v Speaker 1>you put your budget towards flowers and candles and nothing else,

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<v Speaker 1>your wedding venue will be stunning.

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<v Speaker 2>All you need is just like your floral decorations and

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<v Speaker 2>your candles.

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<v Speaker 1>I swear if you have beautiful table settings and beautiful

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<v Speaker 1>floral arrangements throughout your wedding venue, your wedding is going

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<v Speaker 1>to be stunning no matter what. So my cousin's wedding

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<v Speaker 1>was absolutely beautiful, but I feel like there were definitely

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<v Speaker 1>some setbacks because of the language barrier and just how

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<v Speaker 1>they operate in Italy. It just, again, like I said,

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<v Speaker 1>at a slower pace. So definitely taught me a lot.

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<v Speaker 1>But the trip itself was absolutely amazing. It was definitely

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<v Speaker 1>something that I will never forget.

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<v Speaker 2>It was Christian's first.

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<v Speaker 1>Time in Italy, so I felt like a little tour guide,

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<v Speaker 1>like I was showing him the ropes. It was so fun.

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<v Speaker 1>So we started off our trip in a Malfi. Our

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<v Speaker 1>home base was Amalfi, which I also would not recommend.

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

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<v Speaker 1>to it, you know, like there's this one road and

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<v Speaker 1>that's it. You have your shops, your lemons, your sorbets,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's about it. They really don't have that grade

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<v Speaker 1>of restaurants in Amalfi. You know, they have the famous

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<v Speaker 1>restaurant Digema, and there's another restaurant across from La Bousola.

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<v Speaker 1>I can't remember the name, but Labousla is a hotel

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<v Speaker 1>in Amalfi. But the one restaurant across from La Bousula,

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<v Speaker 1>in my opinion, is the best restaurant in a Malfi town.

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<v Speaker 1>But a Malfi itself, I would not make that your

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<v Speaker 1>home base. If you want to take the ferry and

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<v Speaker 1>go see a Malfi for the day, sure, but there's

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<v Speaker 1>really nothing special to a Malfi. Post Aitano, on the

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<v Speaker 1>other hand, I am so happy we did a night

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<v Speaker 1>in post Aitano. So we arrived in Amalfi. First day

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<v Speaker 1>in Amalfi. Second day we traveled to post Aitano. We

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<v Speaker 1>spent the night in post Aitano and it was absolutely amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>We had the best night. Post Atano is so charming

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<v Speaker 1>and so romantic. We had dinner at this amazing restaurant,

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<v Speaker 1>La Tagliata, and post Atano this is where you book

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<v Speaker 1>your dinner reservation. It was such an amazing meal with

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<v Speaker 1>the most beautiful view. And this is the place with

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<v Speaker 1>the insane cooking class. Like it was, it's wild. It

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<v Speaker 1>was actually the best food, homemade wine, family style dinner.

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<v Speaker 1>The cooking class is insane. Wait list over a year long.

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<v Speaker 1>If you can get into this cooking class, it's so

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<v Speaker 1>much fun. It reminded me of like Cloud nine in

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<v Speaker 1>Aspen with the champagne.

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<v Speaker 2>It's wild.

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

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<v Speaker 1>And we were on the waiting list for it, but

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<v Speaker 1>we didn't get into it. My cousin's friends got into

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<v Speaker 1>it and they looked like they had the best time ever.

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<v Speaker 1>We were lucky enough to get a dinner reservation there

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<v Speaker 1>and it was phenomenal. Then afterwards we went to Music

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<v Speaker 1>on the Rocks, which is the club in pos Aitana.

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<v Speaker 1>Super fun. It was not prime season in Italy. May

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<v Speaker 1>is leading up to busy season, which is obviously July

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<v Speaker 1>and August are very busy because in August the Italians

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<v Speaker 1>also have off they're on holiday, so.

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<v Speaker 2>August is crazy.

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<v Speaker 1>July is crazy, but September is like the perfect time

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<v Speaker 1>to go to Italy. It's not too hot, weather's amazing,

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

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<v Speaker 2>When we were there in May. We got a couple

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<v Speaker 2>nice days.

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<v Speaker 1>But when we were in post A Tato, that was

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<v Speaker 1>the only beach day we did. Post Atano. The beach

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<v Speaker 1>was beautiful, but the beach is rocks, it's not sand,

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<v Speaker 1>so my feet were killing me running into the ocean,

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<v Speaker 1>like the rocks are so hot. But that was a

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful walk to the beach club. The restaurant was amazing,

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<v Speaker 1>music on the rocks. I would say post Atana was

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<v Speaker 1>my favorite place on the Amafi coast. Then we went

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<v Speaker 1>to Capri for the day. I would have loved to

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<v Speaker 1>spend a night in Capri, but that's just not how

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<v Speaker 1>it planned out. But Capri is beautiful. The taxis are convertibles.

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

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<v Speaker 1>They have the door beach club at Capri. They also

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<v Speaker 1>have the little ski lift that takes you to an

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<v Speaker 1>amazing restaurant at the top.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's a to do.

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<v Speaker 1>You have the designer shopping if you want to go

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<v Speaker 1>to If you want to do designer shopping, go to Capri.

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<v Speaker 2>It's amazing.

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<v Speaker 1>Then we wanted to go to Sorrento for the day,

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<v Speaker 1>which Sorrento is where my cousin's friends stayed. That was

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<v Speaker 1>their home base. They had a phenomenal time. They loved Sorrento.

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<v Speaker 1>So definitely, when I go back to Italy, I would

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<v Speaker 1>love to go to Sorrento and Ishka. So I would

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<v Speaker 1>make Sorrento or Ishka your home base if you want

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<v Speaker 1>to stay around the Amalfi coast. It is amazing like

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<v Speaker 1>those like I've never been. I heard it's beautiful in

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<v Speaker 1>those two places, and those are two great home bases.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't recommend Amalfi. Then after Amalfi.

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<v Speaker 1>We went to Florence, and Florence was everybody's favorite place.

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<v Speaker 1>We did Tuscany for the day. We did a wine tour.

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<v Speaker 1>We just booked it on a website. It was incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>We did Chinquiteta for a day and we did book

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

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<v Speaker 1>need a lot of you don't need a lot of

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

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<v Speaker 1>and you know that that's where they filmed Luca, the

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<v Speaker 1>Disney Show. So there's really cute moments in Chinquitada. Also

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<v Speaker 1>in Chinkuitada. They are known for their facaca bread and

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<v Speaker 1>their pesto. So Manto Ro Salamade was the beach town

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<v Speaker 1>in Chinquitada. It was gorgeous and I we literally we

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<v Speaker 1>had an hour there. We took that time to just

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<v Speaker 1>relax on the beach. Out of all of the cities

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<v Speaker 1>in Chiquitada, I would say that town is the best

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<v Speaker 1>town to stay in. You have a beach, it's chill,

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<v Speaker 1>it's a little bigger, but then you know, it's nice

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<v Speaker 1>to see the other towns too, very beautiful, colorful buildings.

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<v Speaker 2>It was nice.

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<v Speaker 1>So when you're there, you need to try their facaca

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<v Speaker 1>bread and buy a jar of their pesto venice. I

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<v Speaker 1>don't know if this is gonna upset people. I thought

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<v Speaker 1>it was overrated. I didn't love Venice. I was there

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<v Speaker 1>when I was little. I just thought it was overrated.

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<v Speaker 1>Could do your designer shopping there. The food, I did

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<v Speaker 1>not think it was great at all. We did the

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<v Speaker 1>gondola ride. Our gondola driver did sing to us, but

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought it was overrated.

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<v Speaker 1>Definitely a good day trip if you want to do that,

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<v Speaker 1>but you don't need more than a day in Venice.

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

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<v Speaker 1>my ancestral town, salaquin Selina, where my family from Italy lives.

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<v Speaker 1>We had the best time there. It's just everyone is

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<v Speaker 1>so happy. They don't have a lot, and they are

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<v Speaker 1>just so happy and full of life. My Zio Antonio

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<v Speaker 1>is the cutest person ever. Christian was drunk off of

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<v Speaker 1>homemade wine, screaming Belichow. Belichow and my cousins are looking

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<v Speaker 1>at him like he has ten heads. But it was

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<v Speaker 1>probably the most wholesome moment of our entire trip. Family,

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<v Speaker 1>good food, drinking, It's it's what it's all about. Favorite

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<v Speaker 1>restaurant in Florence was Los s Crudo. Wasn't one of

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<v Speaker 1>your famous restaurants that you see on TikTok like Goby,

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<v Speaker 1>like thirteen Goby and all that. It was called Oscrudo

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<v Speaker 1>and it was so good, so good. Theduomo was The

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<v Speaker 1>Douomo was beautiful, It really was. It was such a

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful church. It was incredible. Yeah, I would say Florence

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<v Speaker 1>was probably my favorite city. I did run into a

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<v Speaker 1>quite a bit of house lives fans, honestly when I

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<v Speaker 1>was there, and my cousins were shocked. It was people

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<v Speaker 1>that were from Jersey or from Australia, and it's always

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

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<v Speaker 1>nothing chaotic happened. Our trip was so smooth and went

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<v Speaker 1>so perfectly. The only hiccup was our day in Sorrento

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<v Speaker 1>didn't work out, but then we obviously just hung out

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

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<v Speaker 1>If something goes wrong, you can always find something else

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<v Speaker 1>to do. It's so beautiful. You could find something to do.

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<v Speaker 1>Go on a hike, go on a walk, You'll see

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<v Speaker 1>something new every day. Rome it was Christian. We ended

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<v Speaker 1>the trip in Rome because we flew out of Rome.

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<v Speaker 1>It was Christian and Tie's first time in Rome, so

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<v Speaker 1>we did it all. We went from the Piazza to

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<v Speaker 1>the Spanish Steps, to the Coliseum to the Trevy Fountain.

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<v Speaker 1>It was incredible and we had such an amazing day.

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<v Speaker 2>But same thing.

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<v Speaker 1>You know Rome, you turned down a different street and

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<v Speaker 1>there is you know, so much to see.

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<v Speaker 2>For Florence.

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<v Speaker 1>I will say, if you look up the best Panines

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<v Speaker 1>in Florence and go to all those famous Panini shops.

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

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<v Speaker 1>Let me know what else you guys want me to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about. But this was so fun and I'll see

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<v Speaker 1>you guys next week. Love you guys.

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<v Speaker 2>Bye,