Let the Etto Team Help you Plan a Trip to Italy
As you know I love to travel to Italy and have done so regularly over the last 20 plus years. I am fascinated by the history, culture and of course all the delicious food. Italian travel has evolved tremendously over the last 20 or so years also with most visitors looking beyond the typical Venice, Florence and Rome itineraries. While I’ve spent plenty of time in all three of these amazing cities my favorite experiences have been those places less traveled and oftentimes free of crowds. While these locations are becoming harder to find they still exist in abundance and I think most travelers will be rewarded by finding these places as well. This travel has of course shaped my life and also brought to life Etto and Giornata.
In the last several years I’ve also suggested and helped many of you plan itineraries including taking some small groups to our favorite places. The reality is, I am not a travel professional and always felt that I was coming up short to help you best plan your dream trip to Italy.
My sister-in-law Brooke Garrett spent twenty years working in a boutique travel company started by her grandmother and worked alongside her mother for twenty years. They decided to close the business in 2020 when the travel world stopped and Brooke’s mother decided it was time to retire. Last year I started talking to Brooke, another seasoned Italian traveler about reopening her travel business to help me build amazing Italian trips to Italy for Etto and Giornata customers. The more we talked about it the more excited we both became. Now after about six months of planning we are thrilled to announce the launch of our travel to Italy advisory with the guidance of my travel professional sister-in-law Brooke Garrett.
We have created a list of all our favorite places to visit in Italy and Brooke can share some of these with you as appropriate during your travels. She can help with flight coordination, other transportation, hotels and other bookings. She also can help arrange villa stays, custom tours, multigenerational family trips and tours. She has shared some of the tools at her disposal with me for our upcoming Sicily trip (basically an app that shows our entire itinerary from when we leave our door until we return - I used to type all this in a note file by hand) This summer she will be tromping around Italy with her parents, brother and her kids in a customized tour that you will hear all about.
Now with the help of a seasoned travel professional with access to the top properties as part of the Virtuoso network we can truly help make your Italian travel dreams come true. As wonderful as traveling to Italy is, it helps to have someone to help make the journey as smooth as possible. Brooke will be acting as an independent affiliate of an organization called Travel Experts which is one of the top host agencies in the nation.
Click below to see Etto’s new travel page with some of the Etto and Giornata team stories and faves along with a contact page to learn more about our travel services. We look forward to sharing our love of this magical land with you.
