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When you spend days and weeks and hours researching and deciding on places and activities for a trip - especially in another country - even with the best of reviews, (of course I am an avid TripAdvisor user) you really don't know exactly how it will be but there is the hope and anticipation of something special. Deciding to spend three days on a private food and wine tour with Marcello Tori and being hosted in his home with his wife Raffaella was like that. We chatted a bit via email to confirm our itinerary. We checked into our Bologna hotel and within a half hour, Marcello was there to take us to his home where we met Raffaella and their son Tommasso. A beautiful apartment overlooking the roofs of Bologna, at sunset on a lovely balcony where she began a four-course dinner by serving us fried zucchini blossoms and delicious local wine but those simple words can't describe the experience. No words can. All I can say is from now on it is all different - there is no coming back from the experience with Marcello and Raffaella - learning what we did was experiential - the love of the country, the food the time we spent & how we did. We wouldn't change a thing but know we have to change how we do life now - the experience has changed us.
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My family thoroughly enjoyed our fantastic tour with Raffaella and Marcello. It was one of the best vacations we've ever taken! They were the perfect hosts and showed us places that a regular tourist would never see. Some of the highlights included truffle hunting, visiting a parmesan cheese factory and balsamic vinegar factory and touring the beautiful city of Ravenna. We especially enjoyed going to their home and learning how to make pasta by hand and several other special dishes. They truly welcomed us into their hearts and their home! I would highly recommend any of their tours and hope that we will someday be able to visit them again.
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