Italy Updates

A Silent Easter…

Happy Easter, sure is a particular one this year, isn’t it? It will not be remembered as the year that we bloated ourselves with all kinds of foods until we couldn’t breathe, sunbathed, barbecued or even escaped the city to the countryside or other destinations but by staying at home. Today we remember with sadness […]

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Italy Day30 – To Peak or Not To Peak

Here in Italy the official nation-wide Lockdown started on 9th March, however for some of us it was as early as 27th February. As you can imagine, it is hard to keep motivated even for highly motivated people. I have to say that this moment I’m going through is personally the most challenging to date. […]

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Italy Day22 – Same Place – Different Time Zones

  To All of Us in the same place, even if in different time zones, I hope this email finds you and your loved ones in health. From this email’s opening it is clear how this horrendous situation has affected us globally. So let me take this opportunity to say that here, at Selected Tours […]

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Italy Day16 – Aperitif with some friends?

As you can imagine you get the idea that you seriously start craving for some normality in your life, so what better than an aperitif with some friends? Here you will see some diverse faces of Italy, from different walks of Life, hear them sharing their reaction to the situation .. From Italy with Love […]

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Italy Day12 – Spring – ‘Time’’

  Yesterday I had this wonderful conversation with a very dear friend, Marylynn from Atlanta (USA). We were sharing our thoughts, as we often do, and of course we ended up discussing this horrendous moment we are all going through and how our lives suddenly have become so vulnerable, all so unreal, so fragile. Uncertainty […]

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Italy Day8 – A Message of Hope From Italy

  Dear Friends, Since the start of the outbreak, I have been trying to keep you updated as best as possible, however at this point it is useless to talk about the many cases still growing here in Italy and how much this is breaking our hearts as we still have not reached the peak […]

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