Marjorie Shaw's Insider's Italy

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Marjorie Shaw's Insider's Italy

Personalized travel planning for discerning, independent Italy travelers Insider’s Italy operates on the premise of personal service.

Our clients have a common desire for a deeper travel experience than the usual tourist itinerary. Travelers turn to us for insightful and comprehensive planning that is tailored to their particular expectations and situations. Honeymooners use Insider’s Italy, as do intergenerational families celebrating special events. So do busy professional couples that love Italy but have no time to dedicate t

o their own planning. Clients overwhelmed with the resources of the Internet are delighted to turn planning over to us. And each year we book dozens of hand picked villas that we know inside out, and in locations that we know equally well. We are not formulaic in dealing with our clients. We listen carefully and unhurriedly to each traveler and offer substantial personal attention during every phase of our travel planning. Most of our travelers are repeat clients. We do not advertise but operate exclusively on word of mouth. Please visit our web site, www.insidersitaly.com, for full details about our company, and to complete our no-obligation travel planning survey. Or please write us directly at [email protected]. It would be our pleasure to work with you. Enjoy too the Insider’s Blog, visible on our website. Please know that your comments will delight us — and are always most welcome.

12/06/2026

https://insidersitaly.substack.com/p/lets-cut-the-bu****it-about-authentic

A leading travel magazine recently published a piece on Amalfi, generously peppered with words like “authentic” and “insider,” promising readers a more rewarding way to discover the fabled coast.

11/06/2026

https://www.insidersitaly.com/favorite-villa-rental-lucca/

A rare opportunity to rent a favorite fully staffed luxury villa near Lucca, Tuscany. Sleeps 12 guests, includes a chef, and is available at a reduced rate for select June and July dates

09/06/2026

https://insidersitaly.substack.com/p/the-return-of-the-nemi-fragoline

The artichokes are, alas, long gone, and the puntarelle alas too.

07/06/2026

https://www.insidersitaly.com/multi-generational-travel-italy/

How bespoke multi-generational journeys are bringing families back to Italy decades after their first Insider's Italy travels

28/05/2026

Continuing the conversation about Carlo Petrini, and following up on my own writing (https://insidersitaly.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-carlo-petrini), I’d like to share this excellent piece by Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, which references my early involvement with Arcigola — the nursery from which Slow Food grew.

Italian activist, author and pioneer of the Slow Food movement

22/05/2026

https://insidersitaly.substack.com/p/in-memory-of-carlo-petrini

I awakened this morning to the sound of swallows, in an old oversized Slow Food T-shirt imprinted with the movement’s unmistakable snail.

11/05/2026

https://substack.com/home/post/p-197222217

Venice is much on my mind at the moment, not only in my usual frame of how to understand, explore, and respectfully experience one of the world’s most extraordinary— and most overtouristed and vulnerable — cities, but also because of two recent events.

10/05/2026

https://open.substack.com/pub/insidersitaly/p/le-mamme?r=1vmgwe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The first mamma in my family to arrive in Italy was my nonna, Marjorie Adams Osborne, who came to Rome in 1919 — not yet a mamma herself, but the wife of the new assistant commercial attaché at the American Embassy

02/05/2026

The Snail Incident. A Roman Market Tale.

It is a strange thing how, in an Italian market, one chooses a favorite fruit and vegetable merchant.

Indirizzo

Rome

Sito Web

http://www.insidersitaly.com/

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