{"id":563,"date":"2016-11-26T03:11:04","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/italy-101\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T01:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T01:31:15","slug":"italy-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/italy-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Listopedia: Italy 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that it requires many thousands of dollars\/kilometres for Australians to holiday abroad, and our currency is always being picked on by the bigger kids, we Strayans continue to travel overseas in rising numbers, and with craftier luggage tricks. Good on us.<\/p>\n<p>I usually choose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Italy.d86.Destination-Travel-Guides?brandcid=blog.listopedia.italy101.zoefoster_241116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy<\/a>. I\u2019ll go there annually if they\u2019ll continue to have me, despite my terrible pronunciation of \u201cgrazie\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some reasons include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carbs<\/li>\n<li>Fashion<\/li>\n<li>Negronis<\/li>\n<li>Ricotta cheesecake<\/li>\n<li>Swimming off rocks and <em>no sand anywhere<\/em><\/li>\n<li>No judgment when ordering a bowl of pasta, then pizza<\/li>\n<li>Friendly, warm, welcoming Italians<\/li>\n<li>Everyone looks great because everyone wears sunglasses always<\/li>\n<li>Carbs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like most people, I\u2019ve done the classic Italian hotspots: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Venice.d179981.Destination-Travel-Guides?brandcid=blog.listopedia.italy101.zoefoster_241116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venice<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Positano.d4330.Destination-Travel-Guides?brandcid=blog.listopedia.italy101.zoefoster_241116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Positano<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Sicily.d6048323.Destination-Travel-Guides?brandcid=blog.listopedia.italy101.zoefoster_241116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sicily<\/a> and, of course, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/Athens.d178231.Destination-Travel-Guides?brandcid=blog.listopedia.italy101.zoefoster_241116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Athens<\/a>. Here are some of my favourite things to do\/see\/eat\/visit in the aforementioned hotspots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the fact that it requires many thousands of dollars\/kilometres for Australians to holiday abroad, and our currency is always being picked on by the bigger kids, we Strayans continue to travel overseas in rising numbers, and with craftier luggage tricks. Good on us. I usually choose Italy. I\u2019ll go there annually if they\u2019ll continue&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/italy-101\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Listopedia: Italy 101<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[120,51],"authors":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experiences","category-explore","tag-italy","tag-listopedia","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Listopedia: Italy 101 | Expedia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.co.nz\/stories\/italy-101\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Listopedia: Italy 101 | Expedia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite the fact that it requires many thousands of dollars\/kilometres for Australians to holiday abroad, and our currency is always being picked on by the bigger kids, we Strayans continue to travel overseas in rising numbers, and with craftier luggage tricks. 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