Ep. 42: When to Go To Italy and Where to Go in 2027

Before we get into that, let's just clear up a few misconceptions.

If you think I live in Houston, I live in Los Angeles, I'm used to the heat, I can deal with it.

No, you can't.

It's a very different thing in Europe.

If you live in Houston or the San Fernando Valley, you live in a world of air conditioning.

You go from the store to the car to a home where the temperature is very regulated, very controlled.

So even if it's hot in the in-between, you're not spending a lot of time outside.

When you're walking around an Italian city that is built on cobblestone, where nature has been completely obliterated by the medieval city grid.

And even though all the hotels have air conditioning now, it's not the same thing as a modern house in Texas.

Last year, we had clients, maybe it was the year before, Anyway, they were from Houston and they were in Rome during a particularly bad heat wave.

And they were very upset that their hotel, which was in a building from the 16th century, would only get down to about 70 degrees at night.

They were complaining to the hotel.

They called me.

And in the end, they left me a very negative review about the whole experience.

But the truth was, it was just so hot outside that the building, even with the air conditioning fully functioning, could only get the room down to about 70 degrees.

I mean, in my world, 70 degrees is perfectly reasonable, but they were used to something different.

And that's just thermodynamics.

So you can't expect to have the same experience you have at home when you're in Europe.

Beyond that, though, the joy of visiting Italian cities like Florence, Rome, and Venice is to see the sites, to see the archaeological zones, to go into museums that are housed in ancient palazzi.

And of course, to eat in restaurants.

Once you actually are faced with this heat, it's a different thing than you can conceptualize when you're sitting in your temperature-controlled home making plans.

And then the most important thing perhaps about the heat is that the local people are exhausted.

A lot of Italians don't have air conditioning in their homes.

In fact, most of them don't.

And the price of energy in Italy is very high.

Before we get into that, let's just clear up a few misconceptions.

If you think I live in Houston, I live in Los Angeles, I'm used to the heat, I can deal with it.

No, you can't.

It's a very different thing in Europe.

If you live in Houston or the San Fernando Valley, you live in a world of air conditioning.

You go from the store to the car to a home where the temperature is very regulated, very controlled.

So even if it's hot in the in-between, you're not spending a lot of time outside.

When you're walking around an Italian city that is built on cobblestone, where nature has been completely obliterated by the medieval city grid.

And even though all the hotels have air conditioning now, it's not the same thing as a modern house in Texas.

Last year, we had clients, maybe it was the year before, Anyway, they were from Houston and they were in Rome during a particularly bad heat wave.

And they were very upset that their hotel, which was in a building from the 16th century, would only get down to about 70 degrees at night.

They were complaining to the hotel.

They called me.

And in the end, they left me a very negative review about the whole experience.

But the truth was, it was just so hot outside that the building, even with the air conditioning fully functioning, could only get the room down to about 70 degrees.

I mean, in my world, 70 degrees is perfectly reasonable, but they were used to something different.

And that's just thermodynamics.

So you can't expect to have the same experience you have at home when you're in Europe.

Beyond that, though, the joy of visiting Italian cities like Florence, Rome, and Venice is to see the sites, to see the archaeological zones, to go into museums that are housed in ancient palazzi.

And of course, to eat in restaurants.

Once you actually are faced with this heat, it's a different thing than you can conceptualize when you're sitting in your temperature-controlled home making plans.

And then the most important thing perhaps about the heat is that the local people are exhausted.

A lot of Italians don't have air conditioning in their homes.

In fact, most of them don't.

And the price of energy in Italy is very high.