Comments on: Travel Tip Tuesday: 25 More Tips for Traveling in Italy http://my-bellavita.com/2009/04/28/more-tips-traveling-italy/ Living and Traveling in Calabria, Italy Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:32:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Paula Russell http://my-bellavita.com/2009/04/28/more-tips-traveling-italy/comment-page-1/#comment-5567 Paula Russell Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:22:39 +0000 http://my-bellavita.com/?p=1704#comment-5567 Excellent advice. Your dreams of Italy will can come true if you are prepared. Here's another tip:Italians are extremely polite and courtesy will get you everywhere. Overdo it and people will be very kind and helpful--truly. Learn how to say please and thank you and excuse me in Italian. Shopkeepers will always greet you when you enter a store and you should answer "Buon giorno'--good day--right back. Even if you don't speak any Italian at all or you are speaking with someone who speaks English, always be extra polite and more formal than you would be at home.   <strong><em>Wonderful advice! Thanks for your input.</em></strong>   <abbr><em>Paula Russell’s last blog post..<a href="http://www.paulastourtalk.net/paulas_tour_talk/2009/06/angels-demons-rome-piazza-navona.html" rel="nofollow">Angels & Demons' Rome: Piazza Navona</a></em></abbr> Excellent advice. Your dreams of Italy will can come true if you are prepared.

Here’s another tip:Italians are extremely polite and courtesy will get you everywhere. Overdo it and people will be very kind and helpful–truly. Learn how to say please and thank you and excuse me in Italian. Shopkeepers will always greet you when you enter a store and you should answer “Buon giorno’–good day–right back. Even if you don’t speak any Italian at all or you are speaking with someone who speaks English, always be extra polite and more formal than you would be at home.
 
Wonderful advice! Thanks for your input.
 
Paula Russell’s last blog post..Angels & Demons’ Rome: Piazza Navona

]]> By: Jennifer http://my-bellavita.com/2009/04/28/more-tips-traveling-italy/comment-page-1/#comment-5354 Jennifer Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:49:31 +0000 http://my-bellavita.com/?p=1704#comment-5354 Hee! I sound like an old lady with preparing people for volume and chaos. Must be because I'm from the Great White North where there are only polar bears and beer. ;-)   <strong><em>He he! Sounds ... interesting!</em></strong>   Hee! I sound like an old lady with preparing people for volume and chaos. Must be because I’m from the Great White North where there are only polar bears and beer. ;-)
 
He he! Sounds … interesting!
 

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