Positively Pazzo: Learning Italian and Travels in Italy

Traveling to Italy? Or Know Someone Who Is?

When Michael Francis joins an Italian for Beginners class he expects to learn a few simple phrases, but what he gets is a one-way ticket to the chaotic splendor of Italy.

Armed with unwavering optimism, and a gift for using verbs in all the wrong tenses, he takes his basic Italian and lets it loose on an unsuspecting country.

From standoffs with ill-tempered street food vendors, to white-knuckle bus rides on narrow mountain highways, every awkward a...