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Untold Italy travel podcast

276. From Cash to Coffee: Essential Travel Tips for First-Time Visitors to Italy

Untold Italy travel podcast

Katy Clarke

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Leisure

4.6659 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Planning your first trip to Italy? Or even your fifth? Listen for essential tips, funny mishaps, and insider advice to help first-time visitors have a smooth, unforgettable Italian adventure - from handling cash and booking trains to finding the perfect pasta and packing smart.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Heading to Italy for the first time or after a few years, or even decades, listen on as my friend

0:05.6

Karina Cook and I reveal our top travel tips for first time visitors and share our first

0:10.6

trips to Italy, both in a style that might surprise you.

0:19.7

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.

0:31.4

Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical landscapes, history, culture, wine, gelato,

0:40.5

and of course, a whole lot of pasta. If you're dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures

0:46.1

there, you've come to the right place.

1:02.7

Dreaming of a reality. dreaming of arriving in Italy, strolling into a gelatoria and ordering your gelato with confidence,

1:07.8

if you've been learning Italian with language apps but still can't string a sentence together,

1:12.4

it might be time to try another approach. My friend Michelle from Intrepid Italian offers a practical way to learn travel-ready Italian. Thanks to her unique

1:18.0

80-20 method, Michelle teaches you exactly what you need to know to connect with locals and have

1:23.9

more authentic travel experiences. There's no getting bogged down in awkward phrases and unnecessary grammar.

1:31.4

As an adult learner herself with Italian heritage, Michelle really knows how to bridge the gap

1:36.8

between English and Italian.

1:38.9

As Roma from London said, the learning methodology is great.

1:42.4

I progressed much faster in the last four weeks than I

1:45.8

ever did on my own or using other language apps. To find out more and claim your free Italian

1:51.5

travel phrase guide, visit untolditaly.com forward slash Italian or visit the link in the show notes.

1:57.9

As a bonus, you'll also get an exclusive $20 coupon code to use on any of

2:02.7

Michelle's online self-paced courses. So visit untolditally.com forward slash Italian and

2:08.8

accelerate your Italian language journey today.

2:13.5

Jao, everyone. I hope you're doing well and enjoying life as Europe and the Northern

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