Classic Italy

Italian cuisine is all about fresh, local ingredients. We’ll be eating Italian pizza, pasta, meats and vegetables. We also love to do picnics al fresco in stunning places like Murano and Pisa. One great thing about this trip is that we get to experience first-hand the regional differences in Italian cooking – we’ll eat pizza down south in Rome while in the Cinque Terre we’ll eat the local pesto and Tuscany we’ll munch on traditional Tuscan country food.

The Trip Leader for every trip is a seasoned teen travel professional with extensive TFT experience. Trip Leaders often live or have lived and worked in the destination country. Extensive knowledge of the language and culture of the destination is crucial. Our Senior Counselors are experienced, responsible and fun-loving, so our participants enjoy sharing experiences with them. At Travel for Teens we pride ourselves on our rigorous staff application process and the professionalism of our full time and summer staff.

It is the job of the counselors to keep the fun clean and happening, the learning and the laughter in good balance, and to oversee the safety of the participants. Minimum ratios are one staff member to every seven participants. Trips may also include one or two Junior Counselors, who are college students with a history of TFT travel, and one or more Counselors in Training (CIT’s) with limited responsibility. CIT’s are not counted in staff-participant ratios.