Miss Italy?  Miss Sarah and Perrin from Italy?  Wanted a 90 second rundown of their favorite locations in Europe?

Yes you say? Man, are you in luck today.

And while you’re watching videos you should check out episode 5 from Quito, it is awesome.

NEWS

Jet Set Zero was selected to appear on YouTube’s first ever travel channel.

YouTube just launched YouTube Vacationer which in addition to being it’s first travel channel (and sponsored by Norwegian Cruise Lines) also feature’s Jet Set Zero’s Season 7 content from Italy. If you head on over to YouTube.com/Vacationer you can see our first few videos from Italy already featured with even more to come soon. We are all pretty happy to be on a new travel channel and hope it’s just the first of many appearances for Jet Set Zero on larger networks. 

In the meantime, don’t forget to check out our latest Italy videos for anything you may have missed.

This week’s slightly delayed (sorry!) release brings us the second city on our Italy tour: Brescia.

As the girls finally meet up as a group they now set off to explore the local countryside and begin their jobs teaching with ACLE.  Gorgeous vistas, delicious dinners, and farm life abound.

Episode One of Jet Set Zero Italy captured just a small piece of the massive chow-downs we experienced nearly every day. Check out this video for some of my favorite food moments from this summer’s adventure! It was so nom-worthy that I’m bringing all my recipes from the road home for a new cooking show, Really Easy Italian.  Good luck and hearty appetites to the Thailand cast.  Enjoy!

Wanna stay in touch with Jet Set Zero’s past and present casts?  Here’s the most up-to-date blog roll call.  Who am I missing?

Tyler: lessonsfromavagabond.tumblr.com
Jean Pierre: pencilfingers.tumblr.com
Evita: nomadnesstv.com
Courtney: courtneyuncubed.tumblr.com | www.courtneyscott.tv
Sarah & Perrin: sistersbailey.wordpress.com
Jenna: jetsetmeister.tumblr.com
Laurene: laureneworld.wordpress.com

Initial Eat, Pray, Love reviews are in and looking good.  One critic said, “Shot in burnished magic-hour light (the crew must have toiled feverishly over a hundred dawns and dusks), with rapturous attention paid to dishes of prosciutto and melon…”  Sounds like my kind of Friday night.

Let us know what you think of the movie, and stay tuned for more Italy sneak peeks in the works.  Until then, my Eat Pray Love Mashup (via Tumblr):

Getting in Touch with Nature (Chang Mai, Thailand, 2007)
Bike-Happy (Paris, 2008)
Eating Too Much Pizza (Florence, Italy 2010)
Looking For Answers (Bajardo, Italy 2010)

The Nemi Lake Crew

Check it out!   Jet Set Zero Italy Week 4: Best-Of Edition

In our first short from Season 7: Italy, enjoy a brief peak into the cooking of an idyllic Italian family dinner.

While Season Eighters are busy bucket listing their pre-departure To Do’s, Season 7′s cast has been getting closer to bucket list domination with a few setbacks and close calls.  So far we’ve ridden bikes through farm country,  been featured in the Italian news, saw Venice by Gondola, and made pasta from scratch.  But we won’t be complete until all 10 items are crossed off.  Here’s where we’re hitting a wall:

Nutella hotness

#8: Take a Nutella bath
Nutella bath parties do exist in Italy and they are thrown by the unofficial Italian mayor of gelato, Antonio Cafiero. His famous gelateria on Corso Italia in Sorrento is dripping with photos of hot Nutella-covered babes. We asked him the date of his next “Festa di Nutella” and he said to check back later. When we came back later he was being yelled at by his 7-year-old daughter in the middle of the tourist-laden street so…that’s where we stand on that.

Look at her...

#9: Fit the cast in a vintage Fiat 500
In Quito Beetles rule the road, in Italy, it’s this little beut, the Fiat Cinquecento.  Infatuation doesn’t begin to explain my love for it.  When I get married, it’s the car I want to tie cans to.  I’ve even looked into buying one in the States.  They are scarce. It’s so compact and clown car-ish that I’m jonesing to hitch our cast a ride. We’ve seen a bunch on the road, but no one who actually owns one and is willing to part with it.

And the quest continues…