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

212.

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.

Jiao, wangiorno, everyone. Today we're doing something a bit different on request from several

listeners and a special nudge from our recent client, John, who is planning a lovely trip to Rome,

Florence and Tuscany with his mum. Shout out to you both, I hope you have an amazing time.

I often get queries about what Untold Italy is and what exactly it is that I do, which is

quite hard to answer because I really invented my job, not on purpose actually quite by accident,

but I guess it's understandable that people would be curious about how an Australian woman

started a business about Italy with mainly

Northern American followers and listeners. And so when I stopped to think about it,

that's quite strange and I'd probably want to be curious about it too. So this is the so far

and as yet untold story of Untold Italy, a small, mainly online travel company that evolved from a series

of ideas and opportunities to become what I hope is a trusted resource for travel in Italy.

Now, our company is quite a new and perhaps unique idea in the sense that we try to help

as many travellers as we can by different mediums,

our website, travel services, videos, tours, digital products and of course this podcast.

And I'd love to tell you that there was a grand plan behind it all, but it's really been a

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