88. Trip report: The Grand Tour
Untold Italy travel podcast
Katy Clarke
4.6 • 659 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
There are many ways to undertake a Grand Tour of your own but in this episode, we explore one you may not have thought of. Our guest Kathleen, veteran of many trips to Italy over the years, took a very special Grand Tour that captured all the highlights with charming off-the-beaten-path interludes. She shares her experiences and a unique way of traveling that might surprise you.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Untold Italy travel podcast and you're listening to episode number 88. |
| 0:12.0 | 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. |
| 0:23.5 | 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. |
| 0:35.2 | If you're dreaming of Italy and planning future adventures there, |
| 0:39.0 | you've come to the right place. |
| 0:51.2 | Bujorno, chow. Hi everyone. It's Katie here, and today I'm wondering whether you've ever done |
| 0:57.2 | a grand tour of Italy. If you're not sure what I'm talking about, then today's episode will reveal |
| 1:03.5 | all as we dive into another trip report from one of our listeners. So what is a grand tour of Italy? |
| 1:10.5 | Well, this is a tradition that dates back |
| 1:12.7 | hundreds of years to the 17th century when well-to-do English gentlemen and later American |
| 1:17.6 | men and women would travel to Europe as a ride of passage on becoming an adult. While their |
| 1:22.8 | trips took them to France and Greece, they would spend most of their time exploring Italy, |
| 1:27.3 | in particular, |
| 1:28.3 | Rome, Florence and Venice. Back in those days, the trips would last months and involve |
| 1:33.6 | deep exploration of the cities as part of a rounded education for the elite classes. But as |
| 1:39.4 | steam trains arrived in Europe in the 19th century, this opportunity opened up to the middle |
| 1:43.8 | classes and is best described in Ian Forster'sth century, this opportunity opened up to the middle classes and is best |
| 1:45.1 | described in Ian Forster's beautiful novel, A Room with a View, which just happens to be one of my |
| 1:51.1 | favorite books of all time. Later, Thomas Cook took the concept and converted it into some of the |
| 1:56.6 | world's first tour packages, which many tour companies like Trafalgar, Perillo and others |
| 2:01.8 | copied to this day, and many of us start our adventures in Italy on a tour like this. |
| 2:07.7 | But today we're sharing a way to do this grand tour that you might not have thought of. |
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