Anne’s Italy provides an enjoyable, educational, enlightening and in many ways life-altering experience.
My wife and I have had the pleasure of experiencing Anne’s entertaining and intellectually-rich guidance in Italy on three occasions over the last five years- the first two with health professionals attending an educational intensive and the most recent with a small group of extended family. We have visited Spoleto and Assisi with her on these tours.
Her capacity to relate not only to all members of these groups with diverse professional and education backgrounds, but also to connect what she learns about the individuals in the group to the impact of the art and history upon these individuals directly, provided for a highly personalized experience.
Additionally, she subtly trains both the expert and novice in curiosity, artistic gaze, and emotional awareness as she connects history, philosophy, cosmology, and sociology into a rich multilayered narrative tapestry.
I would without reservation recommend Anne’s Italy to anyone of any background- cultural, religious, or philosophical. To be with Anne has been a gift, and the lessons learned remain with me well beyond my time with her. For me, the take home lessons have mostly to do with the power of narratives in their spoken and visual expressions, the importance of community from family to village to city-state, to world, and the Franciscan values of compassion, charity and hospitality.