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Italy The Perfect Place for a Holiday by Josie White provides a great description of what you will see if you visit Italy. The author believes Italy is a wonderful place to go and attempts to share the love she feels for this country. She emphasizes that there is something for everyone in Italy and for that reason you will not want to leave!


Italy the perfect place for a holiday;

Bordered by mountains and bounded by sea

Italy is somewhere I so love to be.

I’ll drink the best coffee, feel sun on my face - - and -

With wine and good friends, I'm at home in this place.


With breath-taking sea views, mountains and lakes –

The visitors come for vacations and breaks.

They crowd into cities; they swim in the seas

Or walk through grand gardens and sit under trees.


They’ve spectacular cities of historic charm

And quiet countryside with vineyards and farms.

If it’s history you seek you can step back in time –

But I can’t tell you all, and for sure not in rhyme.

Italian evenings mean crowds on the street,

And it’s here that, with family and friends, they all meet.

The restaurants are busy with good food and wine

And, surrounded by chatter, it’s here many dine.


They’re all talking of families, of football and love

As they sit at their tables, the bright moon above.

They’re hospitable people who entertain well

With such kindness that would be quite hard to excel.


From the Alps snow-capped peaks down to Sicily’s coves

And from Rome’s ancient buildings to warm olive groves:

With Italian vineyards, the beaches, the arts -

These surely are things which have won people's hearts.


All good holidays, sadly, must come to their end

And, with sadness, I wave my farewell to my friend.

All those days, filled with friends and with infinite pleasure,

Have built memories for me that I always will treasure