“Shoot a Travel TV Series” has been hanging at the top of my life list for a while.  Now that JS0 Italy is in production (pinch me) it’s time to attack a new list, the definitive JS0 Italy Bucket List.

Even the most ambitious bucket listers would find it difficult to narrow down all of the must-do experiences in a country as soul-feeding as Italy.  But we’ve managed to conjure up nine.  The 10th is up to YOU!

Send us YOUR ULTIMATE ITALIAN EXPERIENCE via Twitter @jetsetzero (include #js0italy) or via Facebook.  The best one wins a sweet Jet Set Zero t-shirt and the glory of watching me, Perrin, Sarah and Lynne attempt to carry out your awesome idea.

Time is ticking and we’ve only got one Italian summer to live out our weirdest and wildest dreams so without further ado, The Bucket List:

1.  Ride bikes through the Italian countryside ACCOMPLISHED

2.  Appear on the Italian news ACCOMPLISHED

3.  Cruise the canals of Venice ( Perrin & Sarah) ACCOMPLISHED

4.  Crash a Miss Italia pageant

5. Find and wear the ultimate Mumuu (Courtney & Lynne)

6.  Make pasta with an Italian grandma

7.  Sail the Amalfi coast

8.  Take a Nutella bath

9. Fit the cast in a vintage cinquecento

10.  ??? VIEWER VOTED ???

[Photo:  David]

We can't seem to shed the Big Apple. We're using this as a transitional shirt.

The moment Perrin and I stepped out of the Venice train station a perceptive Pakistani vendor informed us we did not love New York anymore.  But was Venice so different?  We were on an island and spotted street meat carts, photo-snapping tourists and inflated prices (€2.90 for a Pistachio cookie??).  Manhattan comparisons were not such a stretch.

To ensure we were still in Italy we stocked up on some gelato and pizza and walked on.  At least for 10 minutes until I spotted a gondola and ushered everybody aboard.  I have no problem playing the corny tourist here.  We rocked the boat, knocked on doorways and requested songs from the unremitting gondolier.  The 25-minute ride was worth every bit of the €15 Euro we each shelled out.

We tipped too hard and actually thought for a moment that we were on our way into the canal.

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I apologize for being MIA lately, but patience is a virtue I do not possess and brutally slow internet connections are not my friend.

Hoi An; city of tailors, or as I like to refer to it, city of dreams! I’m not gonna lie, I love to shop and I love clothes and shoes. I have a hoodie collection to rival all hoodie collections, I own Converse shoes in every colour of the rainbow, I own a bazillion pairs of Vans (including all 4 limited edition Iron Maiden Vans). My jaw hit the ground when I got to Hoi An. Tailor shop after tailor shop after tailor shop filled with jackets, suits, dresses, pants and shoes OH MY! You can walk into any of these shops and have anything your little heart desires made within 24 hours. There are hundreds upon hundreds of pairs of sandals, heels, boot etc in each shoe store. You pick the style, pick the fabric, pick the heel etc and they will churn those suckers out within a day. Naturally I got a pile of stuff done…. unfortunately, because everything is churned out within 24 hours and you have to pay in advance, sometimes things don’t turn out quite the way you had hoped.

Example: Here is a pair of custom made Nike “Dunks” that I had made. I asked for a black sole, she gave me a white sole and if you notice on the side, it says Kappa. Oh well, they’re still awesome anyways…..

Shoe Heaven