The April 2027 AHOI Grand Tour!

About this episode

So, over the years perhaps my greatest pleasure in interacting with you, my dear listener, has been the times someone has been to Italy and stopped off to see me. Actually, my star actress Lucy believes they probably come to see her, but that's part of the family debate. Anyway, I thought, why not make things official and see if we can't get together in a bigger group and enjoy not just a day, but a whole 9 days. So, that is why, I am happily and enthusiastically announcing: The April 2026 AHOI Grand TOUR! An actual, proper, get-on-a-plane-and-come-to-Italy tour. And before you say "oh lovely, a bus trip to Rome with someone's Auntie Margherita" — no. Absolutely not. This is something altogether more interesting. It's called **"In the Footsteps of Machiavelli"**, commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of the great diplomat and writer. it runs from the **10th to the 18th of April 2027**, and it is nine days of what I can only describe as the Renaissance at its most gloriously unhinged. We start in **Florence** — naturally — where we'll visit Machiavelli's own tomb at Santa Croce and spend quality time at Palazzo Vecchio, the very building where the man