New Judge doesn't go to Italy for two reasons:
1. The food (see above)
2. The people. When more than two of them gather (and you seldom see them less than four or six up) they seem singularly unable to hold conversations where only one of them speaks at a time. If you have eight Italians together all eight of them speak at once. Of course the volume of their voices increases with every minute as the eight of them challenge each other to be heard above the other seven. It's a complete waste of their time (though that does not bother me much) but it's absolutely irritating and annoying for everybody around them. I travel quite a bit but avoid any area which I know entertains large numbers of Italians, so irritating do I find them. It's strange because they seem to like to portray themselves as sophisticated and chic, but nothing could be further from the truth.
I went to Italy once. Never, ever again. Shame, because it seems a nice place.