While touring Spain we were with people who had been on multiple trips with us. Soon, the guests who traveled to Tuscany, Venice, Bologna, Milan, Rome, Amalfi, and Naples with us began asking, “Where are we going next?” Spain had been my second favorite country on the long trip with the family, so I made that the next destination. He joined us on that tour and- like his Tuscan-Dutch counterpart- was engaging, charming, funny, and hard-working. She hooked me up with a guy named Jesse Marinus, a Dutchman living in Rome who works for a travel service. I asked Marina if she had any contacts in the Rome travel industry. But I needed some help planning the Rome-Amalfi details. I visited those cities during the original family trip. Again, they asked, “Where are we going next?” The most logical choices seemed to point southward so I led three tours through Rome, the Amalfi Coast, and Naples. Bologna is the food capital of Italy, and Milan is beautiful around Christmas, so I led a few tours to those cities. Those guests started asking, “Where are we going next?” In my opinion, Venice is the most unique city in the world. Before long I had hosted several groups in Tuscany. Then the waiting list grew a waiting list. That original tour ended up not being a one-off. Eventually, we started using her in Florence, and when Waters retired from co-hosting these trips, she stepped in. She did such a good job, and the guests loved her so much, that we used her in San Gimignano, too. She was well-versed, engaging, and charming.
Marina led our group masterfully through Siena. I said, “See if she’s available.” Annagloria called Marina Mengelberg, a Dutch woman living in Tuscany. Annagloria said, “I know a lady who lives here in Tavarnelle who a certified guide for Siena.” On that first tour, a guide that was supposed to lead the group through Siena cancelled at the last minute. I made a Facebook post announcing a one-off tour to Tuscany. Once I returned from that trip and was on a promotional tour for the book “An Italian Palate,” people started asking if I’d be interested in taking them overseas to eat in the places I had written about, meet the people I was continuing to write about, and to see the beautiful places my buddy Wyatt Waters had painted for the book. After several countries in several weeks, we ended up in Tuscany in a villa I found online owned by Annagloria and Enzo Corti. In August of 2011, we flew to Sweden and bought a Volvo. Over the next two years, I worked on that plan. While we were playing the game sometime between Christmas and New Year’s I looked at my daughter and it struck me that I should change my longtime plan of the family visiting one European country for a month every summer, to just doing it all at once and the four of us going to Europe and visiting 17 countries and 72 cities in six months. Here’s the abbreviated version- my wife and kids gave me a Beatles-themed Monopoly game for Christmas in 2009. If I follow the sliding-door trail all the way back to why I am sitting here today, it’s evident that it all started with the long-standing Parker Brothers board game with miniature houses, hotels, play money, and get-out-of-jail-free cards (I was always the race car, by the way). The sliding door moment that has me eating a koffiebroodje pastry with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice in a bakery in Amsterdam occurred over a Monopoly game.
Brad Pitt’s narration as Button effectively describes the chain of events that led to Daisy, a ballet dancer, getting hit by a taxi which ended her dancing career. If any of the seemingly insignificant events had not happened, the course of Daisy’s life would have gone in an extremely different direction.
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The movie displays the principle in a montage of events- one as simple as a shoelace breaking- to effectively illustrate the concept. This example is illustrated brilliantly in the film, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” based on a short story by F. There’s a theory that the simple act of missing a train or a bus can alter the course of the rest of one’s life. in the city center of Amsterdam, due to a board game. John tells the story of how a Beatles-themed Monopoly game led him on a path to Amsterdam.Ī sliding door moment is a seemingly inconsequential action that alters the trajectory of future events.
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