The Reluctant Traveler (2023) s02e05 Episode Script

1
[intercom chiming]
[Eugene Levy]
They say to travel is to live.
Well, maybe, if a day at the airport
doesn't suck the life out of you first.
I mean, where else would you be told
to arrive two hours early
- [metal detector beeping]
- only to become dangerously close
to being two hours late?
Still, I think my travels last year
were good for me.
They seemed to broaden my outlook.
To a degree.
So now, I'm taking on
what is apparently a must-do
for any respectable traveler.
[intercom chiming]
I'm doing Europe.
All right. Where are we, exactly?
I'm going all continental
from the very top to the very bottom.
I'm heading off the beaten track
to discover some real hidden gems
Are you getting this?
and embrace
this budding spirit for adventure.
Look at me. No hands.
Oh.
They're right here. What is this, the bow?
I'll be educating my taste buds
- [laughs]
- Wow, that was so good.
[whistles] Grapes are ready.
- and trying to live like a local.
- [dancers singing, cheering]
- Welcome to my village.
- [laughs]
- [Levy] This is insane.
- [sheep bleating]
I just saved your life. Remember me.
I'm packing any worries in my luggage
[imitates moose call]
Here they come. Here they come.
You never know what the body's gonna do
when it's in abject terror.
I don't think I've done anything
quite like this since I was a kid.
- [cheering]
- and I'm about to utter three words
I've never said before.
Ready for takeoff.
Okay, let's be honest.
You would never come to me for
travel advice, and I don't blame you.
But if you did, I would say
this is hands down my favorite
country to visit in the world.
[Levy] My love for Italy was sparked
by visits to Rome and Venice.
Now, I'm back to discover
what it is about this place
that always leaves me wanting more.
The Italians talk about la dolce vita,
the sweet life.
Well, my life's been pretty good so far,
but who wouldn't want
a bit of a sugar rush every now and then?
But how do they achieve that life?
What's their secret?
I'm hoping Florence and the rest
of Tuscany might hold the answer.
[horn honks]
- My name is Sauro.
- Eugene.
Okay, nice to meet you. Here you are.
[Levy] Grazie mille.
I've just used up all my Italian.
[chuckles]
[Levy] In Germany, I drank wheatgrass
and, um, chewed broth.
So now I'm ready for a spot of indulgence.
And where better to look
than in beautiful Tuscany?
Starting in Florence,
the region's capital.
The home of the Renaissance.
It's really a stunning view
from up here, Sauro.
[Sauro] Yeah, it's a perfect view.
[Levy] A city stuffed with art,
culture, and
- [horns honking]
- Oh, trash.
- [Sauro] Yeah, I think so.
- [Levy] Not exactly what I had in mind.
I can see garbage trucks back home.
There's a reason
they might need a lot of garbage trucks
Oh, boy.
a lot of tourists.
Florence draws 16 million each year.
A lot of people wanna see Florence.
Uh-huh.
I'm not proud of it.
But if you think I'm a bad traveler,
then I'm a terrible tourist.
There's too many people.
But if I'm gonna see Florence properly
Wow.
I'll need to learn a vital skill,
the ancient art of sightseeing.
Hi, welcome to Italy, Eugene.
Such a pleasure to meet you.
- Buongiorno.
- Buongiorno.
Good to see you.
Welcome to Italy, and welcome to Florence.
Uh, let's go around,
and I'll show you around.
Yeah, sure.
As a guide, Emiliano is passionate about
Italian history,
culture, and Florence itself.
Every Italian is connected to Florence.
Our language itself is from Florence.
It's part of ourselves, to be honest.
It's difficult to put it into words.
- Uh, I can tell you're Italian.
- Yeah. I know. We [chuckling]
That You can't help yourself.
Could you talk
with your hands in your pocket?
I don't think I can. [laughs]
That would, uh [chuckles] mute me.
[both chuckle]
Hand gestures are, uh,
part of the of the culture.
There are more than
250 official Italian hand gestures.
But I'll teach you, uh, a basic one.
Let's say that you
Someone that you don't know just comes up,
- and you don't want to be bothered.
- Yeah.
You can say You would say,
"What do you want?
What do you want?"
- See with the
- Ah!
- Ah, yeah, yeah.
- What do you want?
Yes, what do you want?
- What You can do
- Yeah, what do you want?
The attitude, you see?
Hey, what, uh Hey, what?
You can be seen as aggressive
if you don't know who you're talking to.
I wouldn't do that
- to someone that I don't know, but
- [Levy] No.
- You never know.
- You never know.
[both] You never know.
[Levy] Even if I'm suddenly conscious
of everything I do with my hands,
I'm ready for my tour.
[Emiliano] You're in front of
one of the most beautiful cathedrals
in Italy. It's Santa Maria del Fiore.
Well, I-I was looking down at it
when we started our little trip.
But you don't have any idea
of how massive this is.
Think about it.
30,000 people can fit here.
[Levy] Started in 1296,
the cathedral took 140 years to build
- This is absolutely breathtaking.
- I-I know. I know. It's insane.
and right at the top
is a marvel of Renaissance engineering.
[Emiliano] At the time,
it was challenging to build the duomo.
It was incredible.
Sixteen years [chuckles]
to build just the dome.
Wow.
Made of four million bricks,
it is still the largest of its kind
in the world.
I can only imagine
what the inside is like.
[Emiliano] Do you want to line up
for the cathedral?
[Levy] Uh, no. I don't do, uh, lineups.
I just can't do it.
I'm not doing a big tour group.
Not doing that [mimicking tour guide]
Just to be able to be here, look at it.
There's me, and there's the duomo.
That's it. I've seen it.
Luckily, I'm with a guide who,
without all the fuss,
can get me to the things
you really wanna see
- There it is.
- Yeah, it's incredible.
It is incredible.
like Michelangelo's David.
This is just so beautiful.
- Is this the original David or
- This is a copy.
This is a perfect copy of the David.
- Oh, it's a copy.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes.
I imagine the lineups in the museum
- to see the actual David.
- Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. You have to buy the ticket,
- plus the line, yeah
- Right, lineups and lineups.
Well, you could see
You don't have to line up to see this.
Okay, so this might be a replica,
but I've saved myself some time.
And I've still seen a replica
of something world-famous.
Thanks to the biblical story,
David is every bit the Jewish icon.
Well, maybe not every bit.
The only thing that struck me
was the genitalia.
Huh.
It kind of looks
like an uncircumcised penis,
but David was Jewish.
Proof that Michelangelo
never took any shortcuts.
Look at me. I'm an art critic already.
And I've only been here an hour.
But for the full experience,
Emiliano insists I need
my own version of Renaissance art.
This is the home of artists
like Michelangelo, da Vinci,
so, you know, you must have a taste of it.
- Caricatures, you know? Uh
- [Levy] Caricature.
[Emiliano] Yes, yes.
[Levy] It's a rite of passage
for any visitor to the city.
Please.
Boy, this could be awfully frightening.
Big me Give me big smile.
Look this way, mister.
[Levy]
Like it or not, this is my big smile.
Don't work too fast now.
[chuckles]
[Levy] Emiliano assures me
caricatures have a noble history.
[Emiliano] Even Leonardo da Vinci
used to make caricatures, you know?
- Uh, da Vinci made caricatures?
- [Emiliano] Yeah, for fun.
Well, I Where is he now?
[chuckles]
[Levy] I can honestly say
I've never felt less like the Mona Lisa.
- [artist] Okay.
- Uh-huh.
- [artist] One, two
- Oh, my God.
- Yeah, hit me.
- [artist imitates fanfare]
- Hit
- [artist chuckles]
Happy.
[Levy] Well, now I have to smile more.
[Emiliano chuckling] Right?
[Levy] As I head off,
feeling literally as pretty as a picture,
Emiliano has one last sight to show me.
[Emiliano] Welcome to Ponte Vecchio,
the most famous bridge in the world.
[Levy] The Ponte Vecchio is
Florence's oldest and most iconic bridge.
Oh, my, my, my, my.
This is really something.
- This is stunning.
- [Emiliano chuckling] Yeah.
- [Levy] Too bad there are no people.
- [Emiliano chuckles]
[Levy] Don't get me wrong,
this is a beautiful city
filled with art and history,
but I kind of wish I could see it
at a slightly less hectic pace.
I think, uh, a nice glass of wine,
it's like the cherry on the top.
- Lovely.
- Yeah.
- We like this.
- Oh.
- Oh, my God. This is just beautiful.
- [Emiliano] Yeah.
Just beautiful.
- [Emiliano] Thank you. Grazie.
- Sir, here we go.
Salu Oh, one thing,
when you cheer in Italy
- Yeah.
- you must look the other people
the other person in the eyes.
No, not the glass.
Right in the eyes.
[chuckles] No.
Yes.
- [Levy] All right.
- Yeah, like that.
- Wow. Yum.
- That's a good wine.
You are very lucky because this is
this is the best season to come to Italy,
because we are in the wine season.
Do you want to experience
a real harvesting here in, uh, Tuscany?
- Harvesting grapes.
- [Emiliano] Yes.
We're gonna be doing that
when we're up there?
[chuckles] Yes, let's do that.
- I'll do it.
- Yes.
You will have a very different experience
outside of town.
It's very peaceful.
That's where we can experience
that slow pace of life.
Anything with a slow pace,
I'm in favor of.
- Here's to Tuscany.
- Here to Tuscany.
Feeling pretty exceptionally great.
I think it's a good thing heading
heading to Tuscany
and, kind of, slowing down.
Veering away from the tourist aspect
of being in Italy,
almost feeling like you're an Italian.
It's good.
It's No.
Well, remember this one is,
"What do you want?"
- What do you want?
- Y-Yes, yes, exactly, exactly.
- What do you wa Yeah. [chuckles]
- What do you want?
- [horn honking]
- [Levy] Sauro's here.
[chuckles] I'll see you
in a couple of days.
- In Tuscany?
- Yeah, at the winery.
- Grazie.
- Yeah, ciao.
[Sauro] Let's go to your hotel.
[Levy] So it's ciao to Florence.
Seeing the city with Emiliano has shown me
just how proud Italians are
of their history and culture.
As he said, it's part of who they are.
But now I'm heading south
to the Orcia Valley,
with its beautiful landscapes,
medieval castles, ancient villages,
and a delightful absence of crowds.
You can't beat the Italian countryside.
And I'm already experiencing that
slower pace of life Emiliano promised me.
- We're heading uphill.
- [horn honking]
Who's behind us?
Somebody that wants to pass?
[honking continues]
Boy, it's his lucky day, huh?
Apparently, somewhere
at the top of this hill is my hotel.
I just need to find it.
- [Sauro] Here we are.
- [Levy] Wow.
- [Levy] Grazie. Prego.
- [Sauro] Grazie mille.
Wondering and guessing, I guess,
the hotel is somewhere in the village.
Ciao, Eugene.
Buongiorno.
- Welcome, I'm Giancarla. How are you?
- Ah. I'm good. I'm good.
- You made it.
- I did.
It took about three
and a half weeks, uh, to get here.
[chuckles]
[Levy]
Giancarla has worked here for 12 years.
So, what am I looking at here?
Is this the hotel?
[Giancarla] This is part of the hotel.
And you're looking at
a 12th-century hamlet
that has been brought back to life.
This is a living village.
We have about 11 inhabitants still.
- There are still people living here?
- Yes.
[Levy] Turns out the reason
I couldn't find the hotel
is that the village is the hotel.
Once upon a time, it was home to farmers
who worked the land below.
But today, the hotel has been converted
to blend seamlessly
with the original buildings.
I wanted to take you over here to take
a look at the expanse of the Val d'Orcia.
A place where architecture
and the landscape
have lived in synergy
and harmony for centuries.
Are you getting this?
[Giancarla chuckles]
[Levy] This is spectacular.
[Giancarla] Well, welcome to your suite.
[Levy] Not too shabby.
[Giancarla] This is called
the Monte Cetona suite.
It's one of the largest ones that we have.
[Levy] I like it.
[Giancarla chuckles]
[Levy] This is really pretty.
I love the simplicity
with a sense of history.
I love the beams. I love the wood.
I just love the rustic nature.
Got the view.
A boutique hotel
in a medieval hilltop village.
This is like nothing else I've ever seen.
It's the kind of place that makes
this traveler feel, well, less reluctant.
I'm really happy to be here, okay?
Love the pace, love the quiet.
It's a different way to go here, you know?
It just hits all the senses
in such a, uh, relaxing way.
You just feel like you just wanna
[breathes deeply] breathe out.
I'm on my way to breakfast
in the square by the old village church.
I had a spectacular night.
Didn't hear a sound.
Had the windows open,
soft breeze coming in, slept like a baby.
- [waiter, indistinct]
- Ah.
- [waiter] We have scrambled eggs.
- [Levy] Ooh.
And I serve it extra summer truffle.
If they wanna put truffles on my eggs,
you're not gonna hear a no from me.
- Enjoy.
- [Levy] Yeah.
Now this feels like
a step towards la dolce vita.
Wow, that's good.
Well, I was told
that they're harvesting grapes
in the vineyards here in Tuscany,
and I did say if they needed some help,
I would avail myself.
But while I wait for Emiliano
to let me know when the grapes are ready,
I've got some time to play with.
Well, as much as I'd like
to be hanging around this hotel,
which I could easily do,
there is something pulling me toward
this gorgeous countryside here.
So I may do a little exploring.
You'll no doubt have realized by now
that I absolutely love Italian food,
so the hotel has hooked me up
with the local producer
responsible for the best thing
on my breakfast plate.
I've never hunted for truffles.
I have no idea what that's about.
I've, uh, hunted for good optical wear,
but I wouldn't categorize
myself as being a hunter.
I'm not fond of gathering either.
Buongiorno.
- Hello.
- Buongiorno.
[local producer] Federico.
- Federico.
- The The owner.
- And I'm Tania. Nice to meet you.
- [Levy] Tania. Oh, nice to meet you.
[Levy] And who's this little guy?
- [Tania] Our truffle hunter. [laughs]
- [Levy] Oh, my goodness.
[Tania] Zara.
- Zara, are we off truffle hunting?
- [Tania] Okay.
- [speaks Italian] Come on.
- Yeah?
[Levy] Here we go.
Tania works with Federico
on his olive farm and vineyard,
which just happens to be
in a prime location.
[Tania]
We are in a very important area of Tuscany
'cause inside that part of forest,
there is the right climate
and the right soil to find the truffles.
[Levy] Ah.
So any truffles I find
I can keep, I guess.
- Um, perhaps.
- Yeah?
- Well, we'll discuss it, I guess.
- [chuckles] Perhaps.
[Levy] Okay, here we go.
Now this looks like truffle country.
I actually have no idea
what truffle country should look like.
Fortunately, Zara does.
Turns out they grow
between the roots of these trees.
Unleash the beast, huh?
- That's it.
- [Federico whistles]
Right, Zara. Come on, Zara.
Truffle.
[Levy] Zara. Come on, honey.
You're on the job.
[Federico speaks Italian, clicking tongue]
[Levy] Zara has 50 times
as many smell receptors as a human.
So she can trace the truffle's unique
odor even below ground.
How do we know when she's onto something?
Oh, you see
'Cause when she find a truffle,
she's very excite,
a-and start to move the-the soil.
[Federico whistles] Zara.
Zara. [whistles]
[Tania, indistinct]
[Levy]
You think she's onto something up here?
[Tania] Zara! [chuckles]
- [exclaims] Thank you.
- [Levy] All right.
[Tania] She find a truffle!
- [Levy] No.
- [Zara pants]
- [Levy] Dig, dig, dig. What do we got?
- [Tania] Where's the truffle, Zara?
- [gasps] Wow!
- [Levy] Yeah? Oh, baby!
[Tania] Good girl! [chuckles]
Smell this truffle.
You can You can
[stammers] smell the, um the earth.
- Yeah, I Well, sure.
- Yeah. [sighs]
[Levy] What would you sell a truffle for?
- This is like gold.
- Uh, the price is about, uh, 60 euros.
- Oh!
- Minimum.
[Levy] That's a pretty good return
for a 20-minute stroll in the woods.
We did good. We got a truffle.
No more calls. We've got a truffle.
Now, don't tell Tania,
but I just might be shaving this
on some rigatoni.
But food will have to wait for now
as I've still got more time for exploring.
I'm heading to Sarteano,
a 700-year-old town
down the hill from my hotel.
The sweet life here, I'm told,
is all about finding your community.
Going into the country
is always a bit of an adventure,
so I'm hoping that this little jaunt
could be exciting.
[horse neighs]
[rhythmic drumming]
[Levy] The locals are practicing
for an important annual event,
the joust of the Saracens.
And Giancarla has got me a backstage pass.
Whoo! Good! Wow.
- How about that?
- [Giancarla] This is Stefania.
- I wanted to introduce you.
- [Levy] Stefania.
- Hello. Nice to meet you.
- Ah, nice to meet you.
This is a practice, uh, that our guys
of the joust of the Saracen are doing.
Aha.
[Levy] These drums and flags
are the warm-up act for the main event,
a jousting contest which takes place
between Sarteano's
five traditional districts
called contrada.
So, every contrada has their own flag?
Yes. Each contrada has
two medieval drummers, two flag wavers.
How many practices do you have?
- Many times [laughs] in the year, yes.
- [Levy] Yeah?
All year long.
- Okay. All right.
- Yes.
If you want,
our guys can show you how to throw a flag.
Well, who hasn't dreamt
about throwing flags?
Okay.
- Okay, so
- [Levy] Yeah.
[stammers] You follow me in this way.
I do this.
- [Levy] Like
- [flag thrower speaks Italian]
[Levy] And
- [Stefania exclaiming]
- [speaks Italian]
[Stefania laughs]
[Levy]
This could be my last flag-tossing event.
This is not what you want
on your tombstone.
You know [stammers]
took a flag in the skull.
- This, and
- Go.
[Levy] Incredibly,
this skill dates from medieval times,
when it was part of military parades.
One more.
And here I am learning it.
- Like this?
- Yeah. Yeah.
[Levy] Well, kind of learning it.
Three, and
[Giancarla, Stefania] Yay!
- [Levy] Please, be seated.
- [crowd chuckling]
[Levy]
But for the next part of the practice
I'm sticking safely to the sidelines.
[Stefania] It is a medieval joust.
It became a tournament in the
[stammers] 14th century, more or less.
- Fourteenth century?
- [Stefania] Yes.
- Okay.
- [Stefania] Uh
[bell tolls]
The inaugural procession
is gonna start right now
with the drummers and the flag throwers.
[Levy] The joust echoes a time
when knights on horseback
- would clash violently
- [horse neighs]
but today, the opponent has been
replaced by a tiny ring for a target.
[bell tolls]
[applause]
That's a small ring.
It's a very small ring,
and the lance is two meters and 80.
So, long lance, small ring.
[Levy]
It seems like an impossible task, until
[cheering]
- Wow. He's good.
- [Stefania] Yes.
- [Levy] Bravo.
- [cheering continues]
[Levy] Now, if I'd stuck
to my old traveling habits,
I wouldn't have seen Tuscany
in quite the same way.
At the end of the day,
I'm always glad I venture out,
you know, and-and try
and experience, uh, things.
It's kind of rewarding.
[speaks Italian]
And I've found that, as well as the food,
I also love the sense of community.
Both are as important to me
as they are to Italians.
There is a warmth about it.
There is a kind of a lovely, familial,
communal feeling.
Whoa!
I didn't necessarily feel
too much like a tourist, uh, today.
I felt like a citizen of Tuscany.
It was [stammers] nice to kind of feel
like you're, uh you're a part of it.
[cheering, applause]
[Levy] Grazie.
Prego. I will let you
enjoy your cappuccino.
[Levy] Don't mind if I do.
This is how you wanna start a day.
Italy comes as close
to my own pace of life
as just about any country
that I've been in.
It's my final day in Italy,
and Emiliano has asked me
to meet him at the vineyard,
hopefully to begin the wine harvest.
I think getting in and helping out,
getting some grapes,
putting them in a basket is, uh,
kind of a f-fun thing to do,
but nature [stammers] sets the course
for when things are ready to be harvested.
Emiliano!
- Hey, Eugene! [chuckles]
- [Levy] Come stai.
- Matteo. Nice to meet you.
- [Levy] Matteo.
How do you know each other?
We met, uh,
22 years ago in elementary school,
and, uh, we have been
growing up together like brothers.
[Levy] Wow.
[Levy] Italy is one of
the world's largest wine producers,
and traditionally,
when the grapes are ready,
the whole community joins
in la vendemmia, or, the wine harvest.
Around this time of the year, you know,
you receive a call from your nonno,
your grandfather.
"What do you do this weekend?"
"I don't know."
"You come with me.
We go harvest the wine."
- It's fun. You're gonna love it.
- Okay.
- You're gonna love it.
- All right. This is good.
- [Emiliano] You wanna go?
- Yeah, let's do it.
[Emiliano] Let's do it.
- Buongiorno.
- [Levy] Hey.
- What's your name?
- Enea.
- I am the manager here.
- Eugene.
- Nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- So we're off to the vineyard?
- Yep.
We going to see which area
is more suitable to be harvested.
Why would some vineyards be ready
for harvesting and others not ready?
[Enea] Because we have
four kind of red grapes,
and every one have
a different ripeness time.
This is the merlot area.
We going to start trying first this one.
First, we try it.
What do you feel when you try it?
Tastes like a grape.
[laughs] Okay.
The flavor [smacks lips] is more full.
You feel more also
at the back of the tongue.
This is a signal that say
that merlot area is ready.
[Levy] So, how quickly
do you have to harvest them?
When we, uh,
reach the right ripeness time,
we have to proceed almost immediately
because if you wait
maybe for one day more,
it's going to be too late.
- One day more?
- Yep.
If you wait a day, it's too later.
What if you sleep in?
Like, if you sleep in?
- You don't get up on time?
- No, we don't.
Wow.
- I don't wanna wait already.
- No. There's no
- No Let's g You're taking your time.
- Mmm. [laughs]
You've gotta go.
[whistles] Grapes are ready.
All right. Let's go.
Emiliano, Matteo,
and I have our own row to harvest.
- I see. And I see this one here.
- [Enea] This one is easier.
[Levy] All right, that's good.
Piece of cake, so far.
And we got a little one here.
- That's done.
- Okay.
[Levy] Okay, all right. I've
I've got the hang of this now.
[Emiliano] How is it going there?
I would actually suggest
hiring very short people, you know?
That's a good point.
Because this is, like this is
[stammers] It's, like, backbreaking.
Huh? Look at this. Now I'm moving along.
Uh, beep-beep.
[laughing] Oh.
[Levy] If you If you guys can't keep up
- [Enea laughs] They are too slow.
- Well, they are too slow.
And if I [stammers] I-If this was my
vineyard, they'd be go they'd be gone.
[chuckles]
[Emiliano] They'd be fired.
[Levy] They did this when they were kids.
Right?
And you can tell just, like,
how they were probably just goofing off
when they were kids, and it looks like
they're working the same way.
You guys are ridiculously bad
at this right now.
Do I sound like your nonna?
- [Emiliano, Matteo laughing]
- Huh?
Well, that's a sad fact of life. I am.
You see, this is also
part of the vendemmia.
Enjoying the time with people around you.
With your family, with your friends.
So So this is also the beauty of it.
- Well, it that's the way it should be.
- [Matteo] Exactly.
- [Levy] I mean, this
- [Matteo] Yeah.
is absolutely stunning, isn't it?
How many tourists get a chance to do this?
[Emiliano] Do you feel connected
to the grape, to the soil?
I feel more connected to
my chiropractor right now.
[chuckles]
Eugene, guys. Come over.
- [Emiliano] Let's go.
- [Levy] Good. Thank you, Matteo.
[Matteo] You're welcome.
- [Enea] Quality is fine. Quality is good.
- [vigneron] Yeah, very good job.
We can definitely use it.
Now we load it back on
the back of the pickup truck.
[Levy] Our grapes are on their way
back to the winery,
where they'll be added
to the rest of the harvest,
crushed, then fermented,
and finally aged in barrels.
It's a great excuse to come back
for my bottle when it's done.
Like I need an excuse.
Back at the kitchen,
our reward for a job well done, lunch.
This is gonna be some some party,
and well deserved.
Along with some incredible Italian food.
Okay.
I call it Italian food. They call it food.
And I'm pleased to say
that I brought my own humble contribution.
[Emiliano] Oh, wow.
- [speaks Italian]
- [cook, indistinct]
[Levy] Oh, wow. Wow.
The truffles in here,
that's what I dug out of the ground, okay?
With the help of a cute little dog.
[all laughing]
And who's the young lady
that that prepared the pasta?
Patrizia. She cook also for us
here every day
- [Levy] Every day?
- for our lunch. Yes.
Emiliano, you're very, very good at this.
- You're good at this.
- Thank you. I have my own technique.
Did you Did you work as a w
as a waiter when you were a kid as well?
No, never. But, uh,
my mom taught me, I guess.
- [Levy] All right.
- [laughs]
[Levy] I knew I loved Italy,
but before this trip,
I couldn't quite put my finger on why.
Now, I get it.
Look at this. This is, uh
This is Italy to me.
It's a way of living.
It's community.
It's food.
It's wine.
But it's more than that.
It's taking the time
to appreciate all those things.
An appreciation made possible
by a slower pace of life.
Patrizia, delizioso.
- To you.
- [Patrizia] Salute.
Salute.
That is la dolce vita to me.
That is the sweet life.
And it's as close to, you know,
my own priorities in life as you can get.
So arrivederci, Italy.
My next stop has a lot to live up to.
[Levy] Next time
First time in Greece
[Greek host] This is your villa.
[Levy] This is beautiful.
Oh, yeah. That's good.
And already I'm feeling philosophical.
I think I've just found a new vocation.
- Bravo!
- Whoo!
An octopus!
Yeah, no.
I can't eat octopus.
I know what they look like.
- [cheering]
- [plate shatters]
[crowd member] Bravo, Eugene!