Italy
Italy Blog Post
Flashback to September of 2017. I get regular travel deal emails from Expedia and Kayak and sites of the sort, and I sent Jessica a screenshot of one for an Italy "Fly & Drive" trip, just to feel it out and see what she'd say. After some questioning and researching... we had it planned out and decided we were doing it! A group of four was assembled - me, my boyfriend Chris, Jessica and Coach D!
None of us had been abroad, and February, our departure date, finally came after some searching on Google and using Duolingo to try to learn the language basics. We were going to have a rental car, two hotels and free range to do whatever we wanted. The travel site we booked through was Gate 1 Travel - we all would recommend them. We were worried about getting to the car rental place or hotels and our reservations not being real, or being in a weird hotel, etc etc BUT it was so easy and the hotels we stayed in were amazing, clean, staffed with friendly and helpful people, and in good locations. We stayed in Hotel Puccini in Montecatini Terme for most of our trip. We were four blocks away from bars/restaurants and the train station.
