This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you're listening to episode number 225.

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.

Jail, friends, I hope you're well and you're looking forward to your Italy trips.

My next one is in less than two weeks.

Yikes, that came around quickly.

And I do feel like I'm scrambling a bit and have yet to do quite a few things.

Sometimes I can get a bit complacent on my travels, but I should know better, especially

traveling to Italy in June.

So the rest of today is about getting myself sorted and organized, so I don't run into any

of the mistakes that we're going to talk about today. But first, I'm going to share a replay of

a live event that I did on Facebook earlier this week sharing some Italy trip planning

mistakes. My team and I are noticing our community is making when they are pulling together

their itineries. Don't worry, all of these mistakes are fixable, either on your own or with help

from our trip planning experts. And a lot of it does come down to expectation setting and

adjusting a few days or even a few hours on your itinerary to make sure you're making the most

of your time in Italy. And that's because you've worked very hard for this vacation and you want

it to be as beautiful as you imagined. Just make sure you don't leave booking your tickets until the last minute

because I'm afraid that's where things are not going so well for lots of people.

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