This is the Untold Italy Travel Podcast and you're listening to episode number 170.

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, bonjourno, hello friends. I know many of you have only a few short weeks away from your

trips to Italy and are getting very excited. And as many of you are traveling there for the first time

or after a long gap, I thought I'd record a quick episode on Italian customs and how to mind

your peace and cues in Italy. I'm afraid this one's a little bit

bossy, but after some of the things I saw in the last few weeks in Rome and Venice, it seems

somehow a little basic manners stays at home for some people when they travel abroad. And while it's

understandable that it can be a bit stressful away from home, it's really important

to remember that you're a guest in this beautiful country and you need to behave as you would

if you were visiting your grandma or even your best friend's grandma. So today I'm going to

take you through a few top tips on how to observe Italian customs while you're enjoying the

magnificent sites of Italy.

First up, we're going to be talking about greetings. And this is maybe a little bit different

to how things work in our own country. So sometimes if we go into a shop, we just sort of hustle in

and start looking for what we're doing. That's not the case in Italy, where they always say

bonjourno for good morning or good day or wana serra, if it's the afternoon, when they enter a shop or

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