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canyonwalkerItaly. We are going to Italy!
I made brief mention last week about planning a trip to Italy and getting side-tracked planning our Thanksgiving holiday with family instead. Well, ultimately we got both trips planned last week. We're going to Italy at the end of May.
Italy!
Better yet, this trip is mostly free because it's my company's President's Club. "Club", as it's often referred to in sales, is part of the incentive/reward system in sales organizations. Top performers are nominated to Club each year and go on a trip, together, somewhere fun for a few days. Typically it's a beach resort. I won a club trip for the third year in a row at our annual sales kickoff in February.
Over the past several years this company's club trip has always been somewhere in Mexico or the Caribbean. While I hate to be the sort who looks a gift horse in the mouth, part of me each time has lamented, "Againnn?" I've been to those locales many times, and they're easy enough to get to from the US they don't feel that special. I've even suggested gently to our execs, "How about next year in Greece? Or Italy?"
Well, I don't know if they were listening to me or made the decision completely on their own, but this year it's in Italy. And that's awesome, because I've never been to Italy.
Italy!
Club this year is on the island of Sardinia. We'll have 3 nights at a nice hotel there. Hawk and I have chosen to extend it, at our own cost, for an extra night— as it seems such a shame to travel 7,000 miles away and stay just three nights. Oh, and we're also adding a pre-stay in Rome. Rome! We'll fly to Rome, stay there for 3 nights (at our own expense, but we've picked a really nice hotel— and gotten it on points!), then fly a short hop to Sardinia, stay there a total of 4 nights, then fly home.
Italy!
I made brief mention last week about planning a trip to Italy and getting side-tracked planning our Thanksgiving holiday with family instead. Well, ultimately we got both trips planned last week. We're going to Italy at the end of May.
Italy!
Better yet, this trip is mostly free because it's my company's President's Club. "Club", as it's often referred to in sales, is part of the incentive/reward system in sales organizations. Top performers are nominated to Club each year and go on a trip, together, somewhere fun for a few days. Typically it's a beach resort. I won a club trip for the third year in a row at our annual sales kickoff in February.
Over the past several years this company's club trip has always been somewhere in Mexico or the Caribbean. While I hate to be the sort who looks a gift horse in the mouth, part of me each time has lamented, "Againnn?" I've been to those locales many times, and they're easy enough to get to from the US they don't feel that special. I've even suggested gently to our execs, "How about next year in Greece? Or Italy?"
Well, I don't know if they were listening to me or made the decision completely on their own, but this year it's in Italy. And that's awesome, because I've never been to Italy.
Italy!
Club this year is on the island of Sardinia. We'll have 3 nights at a nice hotel there. Hawk and I have chosen to extend it, at our own cost, for an extra night— as it seems such a shame to travel 7,000 miles away and stay just three nights. Oh, and we're also adding a pre-stay in Rome. Rome! We'll fly to Rome, stay there for 3 nights (at our own expense, but we've picked a really nice hotel— and gotten it on points!), then fly a short hop to Sardinia, stay there a total of 4 nights, then fly home.
Italy!
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Date: 2025-04-02 06:25 pm (UTC)One of the last times she went was with "Ella", relatively early in our relationship. Ella was impressed with how knowledgeable Mom was about Rome, and Italy in general.
A restaurant they really liked was "La Gallina Bianca" (the White Hen) which they referred to as "the funky chicken".
I have memories of wandering around Rome with Mom several times when I was young.
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Date: 2025-04-26 12:40 am (UTC)