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Italy has always been more than a destination for me - it is a calling, a connection woven into my family's story.
My Great-Grandfather, Giuseppe Franco Mulinaro, born in Gizzeria, Calabria, left in the early 1900s, sailing from Napoli to begin a new life in America.
More than a century later, that same journey in reverse - from the USA back to Italy - has become my way of rediscovering the roots he left behind.
Over the past few years, my wife and I have walked the cobblestone streets of Rome, watched the sun fall over the Tyrrhenian Sea, sipped espresso in Milan, and stood in awe beneath the domes and towers that define Italy’s skyline. This podcast is the story of those travels.
Hopefully, our Italian Journey is both a love letter to a country that feels like home and a celebration of the simple beauty found in every piazza, plate of pasta, and passing conversation. I also hope is a tool you can use to create Your Italian journey. I want to make your trip about Your Italy.
I want to help you find the reasons you want to visit Italy. I look forward to sharing stories and years of research with you to help you plan your trip.
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In this episode of Your Italy, Joe host Jason and Sheri Acquisto
We discuss their two trips to #Italy, 2002 and 2022.
We cover #Rome #Florence #Venice
As well as #Assisi #Orvieto #Capri and #Sicily
We cover the humanity and spirituality of Italy,
and how there is NO WRONG way to do Italy.
As long as you find the way that works for you.
Thanks Jason and Sheri!
In this Episode of Your Italy
Joe and Lori discuss going back to #Rome to finish their 2025 trip to #Italy
We both love #Roma
Plenty of new adventures and then...
the Trip back to the USA!
#KidneyStones
#BombThreats
#TravelDelays
#ItalyTrip
#ItalyTravels
In this episode of Your Italy, Joe and Lori discuss their day trips in 2025 to #Bologna and #Florence.
It was a fun-filled and hectic two days. We followed our plans, and we took some detours.
We hope you enjoy.
#Italy
#Italia
#Italytravel #Italytrip
#Firenze
In this episode of Your Italy
Joe and Lori discuss their time in Milan and Turin.
#Milan
#Milano
#Turin
#Torino
#Duomo
#DaVinci
#TheLastSupper
#Navigli
#Chocolate
#MoleAntonelliana
#Italy
#Italia
#ItalyTravel
In the first official episode of Your Italy (formally Travels With Friends) Joe and Lori discuss a portion of their 2025 trip to Italy. Because we were there for two weeks, we will just focus on the start in Rome.
The next episodes will focus on Milan, Turin, Bologna, Florence, and our adventures to get home.
#Rome
#Roma
#Italy
#italia
#Italytravel
#italiantravel
It has been a while since Lori and I hosted a Travels with Friends.
Life got busy and we needed to take a break. We are back..and what a great guest we have in episode 18.
Vincenzo Landino - Passionate 1st Generation #Italian #American
His family is from the #Caserta area in #Italy
We discuss #Formula1 #FormulaOne #SerieA #Napoli #PittsburghSteelers #Steelers
#Family #Milan #Bologna #CinqueTerre
It is a real conversation...where we cover a little bit of everything.
Thanks to Vincenzo for the advice before our 2022 trip to Italy, and this new insight as we plan our 2025 trip.
Cannot wait to go to a Steelers game with Vincenzo and his family.
In this episode of Travels with Friends, Joe, Lori, and our special guest Maria discuss her travels in Italy with her family and then studying abroad and living in Verona.
#Italy #Italia #ItalyTravel
#Rome #Roma
#Verona
#Milan #Milano
#CinqueTerre
#StudyAbroad
#Travel
In this Episode of Travels with Friends, Joe and Lori discuss:
#Pope Funeral
#Italy #Italia
#Rome #Roma
#Napoli #Naples
#Milan #Milano
#Florence #Firenze
#Bologna
#AerLingus
In this episode of Travels with Friends, Joe and Lori welcome our friend Brent Dikeman
We hear about some of his travels and stories in England, France, Italy and Australia
Plenty of fun discussions!
#Travel
#Italy
#England
#France
#Paris
#Australia
#Melbourne
#London
#Florence
#Rome
In this episode of Travels with Friends, Lori and Joe welcome our guests Francesco and Suzette.
If you want to know about visiting Napoli, this is the place to be!
#italy #italia
#italyvacation #italytravel
#napoli #naples
have any questions or thoughts on Napoli, email us at travelswfriends@gmail.com
In this episode of Travels with Friends, Joe and Lori discuss California!
Joe visited the Golden State in 2001, and twice in 2017.
Lori just visited for the first time in March of 2025.
#california
#LosAngeles
#Anaheim
#Disneyland
#SanFrancisco
#LongBeach
#Irvine
#southwestAirlines
In this episode of Travels With Friends Joe and Lori discuss
Dallas
Love Field
Dealey Plaza
Texas Book Depository
Reunion Tower
Dallas World Aquarium
GW Bush Presidential Library
North Park Center Mall and Eataly
Waco
Magnolia Table
Magnolia and the Silos
Chip and Jo
Common Grounds
Suspension Bridge
Fort Worth
Holocron - Star Wars
AT&T Stadium - Jerry's House
Whattaburger
Bad Traffic and Bad Highways in Dallas
Travis Matthew not Mac Miller
In this episode of Travels With Friends Joe and Lori discuss a long weekend trip to Philly and NYC.
So much fun...maybe Lori's favorite domestic trip so far!
email us at travelwfriends@gmail.com
check us out at @travelwfriends on Twitter / X as I will post pics!
#Baltimore
#BWI
#Philly
#Philadelphia
#NewYork
#NewJersey
#StatueofLiberty
#EllisIsland
First off, I want to thank you for dealing with our microphone issues in our last episode.
Gina was great...sorry Lori and I sounded so bad.
New Microphone...and new topics!
We have covered #Italy in most of our episodes so far. We will continue to discuss Italy in future episodes but in Episode 10, we cover our experiences in #Disney, specifically #WaltDisneyWorld
Thanks for giving us a listen...you can always email us with any comments at travelswfriends@gmail.com
Future episodes to cover #NewYork #Philadelphia #Dallas #Waco #California and more...
In this episode of Travels With Friends, I apologize upfront as Lori and I had some small glitches with our mic. It will be fixed before Chapter 10.
Our guest for this show is my cousin Gina! She lets us know about her adventures to Italy in 2014 and 2024.
She loves the beach, pizza, wine, and so much more about Italy. She really took an adventurous road and spent quite a bit of time in Sicily and Southern Italy, as well as Capri, the Amalfi Coast, Rome and Venice.
Thanks Gina!
In the next few episodes Lori and I will be working with a new mic and covering California, Disney, New York and the East Coast, Dallas and Waco...and more...
In this episode Joe has a one-on-one with Peter Caliendo. Joe and Pete have known each other for twenty years while working in the baseball industry.
Pete's Sports Tours: https://caliendosportsinternational.com/
Pete's Italy Wine Tours: https://caliendosportsinternational.com/caliendo-italy-tours
We have a great talk about our Italian Heritage, his sports tours and his new venture into Italy tours of sightseeing, wine tasting, and cooking classes.
So much fun!
Chapter 7 is the second half of our conversation with Jon and Lisa about their trip to Italy in 2024.
We hear all about their adventures on their second cruise and what they saw in Italy and other locations...
It looks like we might plan a trip with them in the future for early 50s!
#Italy #Italia #italytravel
In this episode of Travels With Friends, Joe and Lori welcome our guests Jon and Lisa.
They have been to Italy twice. In this episode we cover their 2022 experience.
They did their trip while on a cruise, right after covid, and there were plenty of adventures.
#Italy #ItalyTravel
In this episode of Travels W Friends Joe and Lori give some updates on their 2025 #Italy plans...
September or October
#Rome #Milan #Florence #Naples
Fine-tuning the plan now.
Looking like we are flying @AerLingus
Then we do a #Destin FL vs #GulfShores AL discussion...
Would love to hear your feedback on it all.
travelswfriends@gmail.com
Also, I see that many people have listened to Episode 4 about #Positano and #Capri
I had to drop all episodes at once...please go back and check out episode 1, our intro the show...
Episode 2 about #Rome
Episode 3 about #Florence
Thanks
In this episode of Travels With Friends, Joe and Lori recap their trip to Positano and Capri
#italy #italia #italytravel #travelitalia
#Travel
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