This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you were listening to episode number 195.

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, friends, bonjourno.

I hope you're all well and dreaming of Italy.

Today's episode is a short but important one. I want to talk to you today about the serious

business of travel planning and discuss the title of this episode, how to get an

personalized Italy travel plan for free because of course, yes, sorry about the clickbait title,

it is actually impossible to get a highly personalised travel plan for your trip to Italy for free.

And I'm going to get a little bossy, I'm afraid, because unfortunately many people seem to think that

for some reason all travel advice should be completely free or done as a favour,

which is kind of bizarre because for any other purchase of thousands of dollars, you would probably

seek out and pay for some professional advice. Now, you might be thinking, of course travel isn't free,

Katie, and to be clear, I'm not talking about paying for plane tickets or

hotel rooms or activities. No, this episode is about how you access and compile the information

you need to plan the trip of your dreams and pull it all together into a magnificent plan.

And I'm here to tell you it is not free whichever way you cut it.

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