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Glam Italia! How to Travel Italy Secrets To Glamorous Travel On A Not So Glamorous Budget eBook Corinna Cooke

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Glam Italia! How to Travel Italy Secrets To Glamorous Travel On A Not So Glamorous Budget eBook Corinna Cooke

I have been to Italy years ago, and spent a month there, and in that time I thought I had done all I could to leave feeling like I had immersed myself in the culture and lifestyle enough to know the country. It took a lot of time, a lot of money, and still many days were lost to navigational confusion (ROME, I'M LOOKING AT YOU), poor planning, language barriers, and tourist traps. The most significant parts of my time there happened organically, in often overlooked interactions with real people, at beautiful places not frequented by the average tourist. I recall being embarrassed at one point after noticing heavy Americans walking around shirtless or in tank tops and cargo shorts a the Duomo sites in Florence, speaking in a loud condescending tone to people who didn't respond to them in English. Gross. I had to make a lot of tourist mistakes in that month to find a real connection with the beauty that is Italy. What Corinna has done with this book is beyond valuable. She has condensed her years and years of extensive and continuing knowledge of Italy into an easily accessible guide which allows anyone with travel sense and decorum to truly immerse themselves in the beauty of Italy, as well as experiencing the kindness of it's people. She's been everywhere, knows everything, and knows almost everyone. This lady has stories... and you can feel her love for the country in the pages of this book. If you want to have an authentic experience, not just "a trip", this is the book for you. But if you do go, and you are American, please behave. Have reverence. Be respectful. Be kind... Shirt and shoes required.


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Glam Italia! How to Travel Italy Secrets To Glamorous Travel On A Not So Glamorous Budget eBook Corinna Cooke Reviews

No likes here, just a waste of money. Appears she got all her Glam friends to write a review and give her 5 stars. Book defined the word "superficial". Author gave me 30 pages on how to fly to Europe and how to cope with jetlag, 20 pages about Italian food, wine and coffee, 10 pages on pickpockets and get this 10 pages on using the bathrooms and how to use cell phones. If you have been to Europe, in fact any flight of over 4 hours you know to drink plenty of water, lay off the caffeine, and don't drink alcohol. There is nothing in this book about first time visitors what to see, what to do. It's also filled with another 10 pages of blank pages and pencil artwork. There .is also no index, not that you even need one. Didn't have to use my hi-liter pen, nothing really to hi lite. Took me only two hours to read it. You could have changed it to "Glam France" or "Glam Greece" and modified a few pages , it would have been the same i.e. how to fly, bathrooms, cellphones jetlag, etc. On a positive note, it's well written unlike the garbage book on Costa Rica I bought last year! In summary save your money and buy one of the popular books on Italy.
I was nervous about taking my first trip out of my home country to Italy. However, this book has given me many reasons to relax and enjoy my trip. Ms. Cooke explains planning your trip, what to pack, buying a ticket, when to travel and why. Also the different places you can stay, and the pros and cons of each. She explains ordering your espresso, wines, meals, including some of the specialities of each region and the dreaded public bagno (restroom). She covers about every situation you might find yourself in, how to navigate the train system, or rental cars, how to get help if you find yourself ill and how to avoid or work through many other travel issues. She also explains how to plan and enjoy your best trip. I feel so much more confident about my upcoming trip.
I have never been to Italy, and do plan on getting there someday very soon. Reading Glam Italia! placed me right on the streets of the “non-touristy” side of the Italy I never knew I wanted to experience. With wonderful anecdotes and stories of all of her travels, Corinna really opened my eyes to a new way to travel- not as a tourist, but as a native. She shared Italy in beautifully descriptive language making me feel as if my best girlfriend was alongside me helping plan this trip to have the most positive and pleasant experience ever! Tips of both practical nature and tips to enhance ones basic travel needs were interwoven in the delightful down to earth tone of the book.
I will absolutely be re-reading this book as I delve into my planning and pulling it out once I am in Italy!
This guide seems to have two strengths sneaky tips for making general international travel easier, cheaper and more glam; and advice on how to see the real, romantic Italy (the one of your dreams - not the queues at the colosseum and the nightmare of driving through Rome, but the tiny restaurant, serving perfect handmade pasta, hosted by a jovial Italian chap, which only the locals know about). This author divulges her secrets so generously. Her love for Italy is so obvious. This must be as close as you can get to travelling with the author to Italy, without actually joining one of her exclusive glam tours (oh, I wish!!! Maybe one day...)
Highly recommended if you want the inside scoop to seeing more of Italy than the tourist trail. (And fun to read vicariously as an armchair traveller too.) Sounds like bliss!
I don't think I have ever met a person who loves Italy as much as Corinna. And it is apparent on every page. She appears to live, breathe and be the very essence of all things Italian. While reading, I think what I found most valuable and so amazing is that she really does share her secrets with us! She covers so much, and yet it wasn't overwhelming. It's a simple read, informative, practical, and is sprinkled with humor which I love. My husband and I are traveling to Italy to visit family towards the end of this year, and the timing of me finding this book couldn't have been any better. I found the chapters on Airport Tricks and What to Do When Things Go Wrong quite helpful. And since we are planning on eating and drinking our way through Italy, her chapters on How to Order Coffee, Drinking Wine in Italy and How to Choose a Restaurant will be ones we will refer back to I am sure. If I could jump on a plane today I would...with this e-book in my carry-on bag (and a perhaps a better chance of being upgraded than I would have had, now knowing not to travel in my pajamas!) A brilliant book. So glad I purchased.
I have been to Italy years ago, and spent a month there, and in that time I thought I had done all I could to leave feeling like I had immersed myself in the culture and lifestyle enough to know the country. It took a lot of time, a lot of money, and still many days were lost to navigational confusion (ROME, I'M LOOKING AT YOU), poor planning, language barriers, and tourist traps. The most significant parts of my time there happened organically, in often overlooked interactions with real people, at beautiful places not frequented by the average tourist. I recall being embarrassed at one point after noticing heavy Americans walking around shirtless or in tank tops and cargo shorts a the Duomo sites in Florence, speaking in a loud condescending tone to people who didn't respond to them in English. Gross. I had to make a lot of tourist mistakes in that month to find a real connection with the beauty that is Italy. What Corinna has done with this book is beyond valuable. She has condensed her years and years of extensive and continuing knowledge of Italy into an easily accessible guide which allows anyone with travel sense and decorum to truly immerse themselves in the beauty of Italy, as well as experiencing the kindness of it's people. She's been everywhere, knows everything, and knows almost everyone. This lady has stories... and you can feel her love for the country in the pages of this book. If you want to have an authentic experience, not just "a trip", this is the book for you. But if you do go, and you are American, please behave. Have reverence. Be respectful. Be kind... Shirt and shoes required.