This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you're listening to episode number 174.

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. Bonjourno friends. Hope everything is great wherever you are in the world and you're busy planning

wonderful trips to Italy. I started travelling many moons ago and things were certainly a lot

different than dealing with visas, the Italian currency lira in its thousands and negotiating where

to stay when we arrived at the train station. There was no

Airbnb or online bookings back then. Things were quite free and easy. And you know what?

Sometimes I miss those days where you would just take to the road and rock up at your next destination

ready to explore without too many details in hand. These days, are a myriad of ways to travel and to be

honest, while I love the organisation, perhaps a little bit too much, I do think fondly of the

days when we had a little less expectation of our travels. So today, we're going to explore a fun

way to travel in Italy, which is popular with a lot of Europeans,

actually, especially the Dutch and Germans, but that you may not have considered for your own

trip, and that's camper vanning. There's something about taking to the open road and exploring,

which is so very popular here in Australia where I'm from, and I know also in the United States where many, many of our listeners tune in from too.

Our guests today are Tanya and Adam, fellow podcasters, filmmakers and photographers

and the dynamic duo behind JITS into the sunset.

They had a fantastic time exploring Italy in their van for two and a half months,

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