An alternative to the escorted tour
by Bob Kaufman
appears in About Italy.
Escorted tours are highly regimented and expensive averaging $300$500 per person per day excluding airfare. Bob Kaufman knows. For over 30 years he ran National Travel Vacations, Inc. a tour operator who offered escorted tours on contract to travel agents. If you don?t want to be told that you must be on the bus at 8 AM, and that you have only one...
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Consider Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. Recommended by 2 sources.
“Eat Pray Love reads like a personal travel diary stitched into three acts: indulgent, sensory Italian pleasure; slow, instruction-style spiritual time in an ashram; and reflective, relational closure in Bali. Its useful part is a candid first-person voice that makes small moments — meals, mantras, landscapes — vivid and immediate, useful when you want emotive travel writing and honest self-questioning. Its main limitation is repetition and a sometimes indulgent tone; the narrative can feel circular and light on concrete takeaway.”
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