321. Your Italy Travel Questions: Tuscany vs Umbria, Milestone Birthday Idea, Concerts and More
Untold Italy travel podcast
Katy Clarke
4.7 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Every six weeks or so, I open up the pod to your questions and every single time I am struck by how thoughtful they are. |
| 0:06.6 | In this episode, I'm answering real, considered questions from people who are traveling to Italy soon. |
| 0:11.9 | Summer season travellers and others are first timers to Italy and they cover the top to the toe of the boot. |
| 0:30.0 | 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. |
| 0:35.9 | Each week your host, Katie Clark, takes you on a journey in search of magical landscapes, |
| 0:41.7 | history, culture, wine, gelato, and of course, a whole lot of pasta. |
| 0:47.5 | If you're dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures there, you've come to the right place. |
| 1:12.3 | Thank you. adventures there, you've come to the right place. Jiao, Tutti and benvenuti. Welcome back to the Untold Italy podcast. I'm your host, Katie Clark. If you're new here, welcome. We're so glad that you found us. |
| 1:17.1 | And Untold Italy exists for people who know that Italy is more than a checklist. |
| 1:23.3 | The podcast is the heart of what we do. We have over 300 episodes and we've been running for six years. We've expanded from this podcast into a travel app, trip planning consultations and small |
| 1:28.9 | group hosted tours. So if you want to check those out, everything lives at untolditly.com. |
| 1:35.2 | Now, we put a call out for questions recently and honestly, you all really delivered. We were |
| 1:40.2 | absolutely overwhelmed with how many questions came in and the quality of them. |
| 1:45.2 | Choosing just a few to answer was very difficult. |
| 1:48.8 | This podcast episode could have gone on for a lot longer, but what I've tried to do is pick |
| 1:53.8 | the ones that I think will be useful to the most people. |
| 1:57.2 | Some are quite specific, but I also wanted to share the thinking behind the answers, which |
| 2:01.6 | tends to apply far more broadly than the question itself. |
| 2:06.4 | Today we are covering six listener questions, including ones on solo travel safety, on |
| 2:12.2 | Italian trains, choosing between Tuscany and Umbria, finding live music in Italy and celebrating a milestone |
| 2:18.8 | birthday in Puglia. And we're also going to dive into how to keep children genuinely engaged when |
| 2:25.8 | they're in Italy and visiting all the major sites and what to do when you have just overhauled |
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