This is the Untold Italy Travel Podcast. You're listening to episode number 165.

Ciao at all and benvenuti to Untold Italy, the travel podcast where you go to the towns

and villages, mountains and lakes, hills and coastlines of

Bella Italia. Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical

landscapes, history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta. If you're dreaming

of Italy and planning future adventures there,

you've come to the right place.

Ciao, hi everyone.

I hope you're all happy and well and dreaming of Italy every day just as I do.

I thought we try something different for a change that I hope will help you out with your trip planning.

Today I'm joined by my friends Kate and Vin, South Terol and the Dolomite Specialists,

who run the amazing website Throne and Vine. And they're going

to help review my trip itinerary for this region that we're planning to visit in September

2023 and help adjust it for some particular circumstances of our trip. We didn't record the

original consultation that we did together, but I found it so helpful that

we've repeated it because I know it's going to help many of you, not just to learn how to

travel in this region, but also to understand how much value you can get by engaging specialists

in any region that you visit in Italy or any other country for that matter.

As you know, I have a lot of experience travelling in Italy, but I was really getting stuck with a few things before chatting with Kate and Vin, because, and I can't stress this enough,

most of the really great information about South Terol and basically anywhere outside of the

major tourist areas in Italy

cannot be found by doing a Google search. And in fact, even in the major tourist areas,

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