{"id":6811,"date":"2023-09-26T08:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=6811"},"modified":"2023-09-26T08:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T12:13:20","slug":"she-went-on-a-solo-trip-to-italy-right-away-she-met-the-love-of-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/26\/she-went-on-a-solo-trip-to-italy-right-away-she-met-the-love-of-her-life\/","title":{"rendered":"She went on a solo trip to Italy. Right away she met the love of her life"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Francesca Street<\/a>, CNN – <\/em><\/strong><\/p>

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Kacie Rose Burns fell in love with Dario Nencetti while she was vacationing in Florence, Italy. \/ Jamie Lee @JamieInItalyPhoto\/JamieInItaly.com<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>

Kacie Rose Burns walked into the Florence jazz bar, alone. \u201cI\u2019ll go for one song and suss it out,\u201d she thought, trying to quieten her nerves.<\/p>

Kacie slipped in at the back. The club was dark and busy, a few wall lights and neon signs illuminating people drinking, dancing and chatting. Before she could even take in the musicians on stage, Kacie\u2019s eyes landed on a tall man sitting at the bar.<\/p>

\u201cI walked in and he was there,\u201d Kacie tells CNN Travel<\/a> today. \u201cWe clocked eyes.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cCiao,\u201d said the stranger, smiling.<\/p>

\u201cCiao,\u201d Kacie said back, before adding apologetically: \u201cThat\u2019s all the Italian I\u2019ve got for you.\u201d<\/p>

It was October 2018. Kacie was a 24-year-old New Yorker on vacation in Florence. It was her first time in Italy and her first time traveling solo. It was an exciting \u2013 and terrifying \u2013 experience.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>

\u201cI was a professional dancer in New York,\u201d explains Kacie. \u201cA very exhausting career \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of toxicity, a lot of rejection, there\u2019s a lot of politics that come into play \u2013 and I was feeling a little stuck, a little unhappy, a little \u2013 just stagnant, if you will.\u201d<\/p>

Kacie spent her days auditioning, traveling for gigs and moonlighting at a clothing store. She needed a break, and she\u2019d long felt a \u201cpull\u201d to Italy and dreamed of an Italian vacation.<\/p>

\u201cI kept saying, \u2018I\u2019ll wait for somebody to go with, I\u2019ll wait, I\u2019ll wait. And then I was waiting for years. And so then one night \u2013 at two in the morning \u2013 I was like, \u2018What am I waiting for? Life is too short.\u2019 So I booked a solo trip to Italy.\u201d<\/p>

Kacie planned to spend the majority of her time in Rome and Venice and just a couple of days in Florence. But in the lead-up to the trip, she got chatting to a customer at the store she worked at. This woman had lived in Florence for five years and sung the Tuscan city\u2019s praises, persuading Kacie to add an extra day to her Florence stint.<\/p>

And that\u2019s how Kacie and the Italian stranger happened to be in the jazz club on the same evening.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019m really glad that I listened to her,\u201d says Kacie. \u201cThat\u2019s the only reason why we met on the first night that I was in Florence, on that earlier day that I wasn\u2019t originally supposed to be there.\u201d<\/p>

A Florence meeting<\/h2>
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Dario and Kacie knew they wanted to be together, despite initially living in different countries \/ Jamie Lee (@JamieInItalyPhoto\/JamieInItaly.com)<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>

The man Kacie crossed paths with in the jazz bar was 26-year-old Dario Nencetti, a chef in a Florence hotel who usually worked nights. It just so happened that was the only evening he had off that week.<\/p>

The jazz bar, called Jazz Club Firenze, was one of Dario\u2019s favorite hangouts. He loved the music, the underground ambiance and the fact the bar encouraged punters to sign up for jam sessions.<\/p>

\u201cThat place is, let\u2019s say, unconventional for Florence,\u201d Dario tells CNN Travel. \u201cUsually in Florence, there\u2019s like a table for two or three or four people. In the jazz club, there are big tables, so you can sit with strangers and stuff, which I love.\u201d<\/p>

When Dario realized Kacie didn\u2019t know much Italian beyond \u201cciao,\u201d they switched to English. <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>

Dario told Kacie he\u2019d lived in Scotland for a year, and they got talking about travel. Kacie mentioned she was on her first solo trip and Dario said he\u2019d embarked on a similar adventure to Japan earlier that year.<\/p>

\u201cWe bonded from the beginning,\u201d says Dario. \u201cIt was really natural, really easy conversation.\u201d<\/p>

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