Change your travel plans.
 

If you can change your plans to visit Italy-tuscany-please do!! Go to France-go any place but not to Italy-Italians are rude-stealing-so many other negative things-this was our 5th visit to Italy-we just spent a month in Tuscany-for the pits!!!

And would you like to elaborate?

It took 5 visits for you to find this out?

Strange observation considering you previous comment:

Author: sandper
Date: 09/09/2006, 10:40 pm
With only a short time-I,too,would stay near Pienza,maybe Montepulciano-from there it is 45 minute drive to Assissi and about 1 1/2 hour to Orvieto-both are wonderful.

I have no idea what sandper experienced (will be curious to hear), but I do see signs of trouble in Italian tourism, such as the NYT article a few weeks ago about restaurant ripoffs in Rome (some such incidents have also been reported locally - going to the police in these cases is a good idea).

And I wonder if Tuscany may be more subject to such simply because there is so much tourism there - the more apples you've got in the tourism-provision basket, the more statistically likely it is that some of them will be rotten.

If this is the case (and I don't know that it is), my advice is to let the Tuscans get over themselves for a while, and hie yourself elsewhere in Italy. There are plenty of places that will be delighted to see you and treat you well, and can offer food, wine, views, history, culture and everything else at least as good as Tuscany, at lower prices and with far less crowding.

best regards,
Deirdré Straughan

beginningwithi.com

huh?

Chiantishire?

A factual travel report would be better than a rant.

>we just spent a month in Tuscany-for the pits!!!

No wonder you are disappointed...weren't you a little early for olive harvest season?

Did you like Italy the other 4 times you went?

Why should other people change their plans just because the Italians don't like YOU?

I think people should listen to sandper. Leave Italy to those of us brave souls who can tolerate those awful, awful Italians.