What I know about Italy

I'm going to Italy. I don't really know much about it. My job in planning our trips is logistics. I take care of plane flights, hotels, car rentals, etc. If my wife tells me to get a tour or tickets for something I do that too. I'm pretty good at this, though it does always leave me with a constant nagging sensation that I forgot to take care of something.

Beyond logistics, I don't do a lot of guidebook reading, so I have to get my information from other sources. The first conclusion I reached is that Italy is inherently silly. I don't mean this in a bad way. I know it's important for countries to take themselves seriously and all, but that doesn't mean I have to.

Why do I think this? Let's start with the language. It's like Spanish but with even more flourishes and changes in pitch. I haven't learned much but I'm thoroughly enjoying trying. Any language where the phrase " Would you like to drink?" is "vorrebe bere?" is definitely fun to speak. Try saying it fast. Next, I got a confirmation code for a tour. Now I'm sure this place has a lot of tours (it's the Vatican), but does it need to be 2KAITU5119XTF1TZR ? Is that all really necessary?

The other thing I know about Italy I also learned from the languge disk. They way this disk teaches you numbers is a guy asking a woman to have a drink with him and he asks her all these different times to do it and she keeps refusing. We get all the way up to 9 this way before she finally tells him that she really doesn't want to ahve a drink with him. I bet they don't teach Japanese this way.