[Jamie79SC]

I make a point of watching Rick Steves so I know where to avoid his throngs of grupies...

True story; my wife and were traveling in Europe with some Rick Steves fanatics. Two weeks of the trip were spent in Southern Italy visiting my brother and his wife. My friends insisted on following the Rick Steves list of places you must see rather than take the advice of people who had lived there for years.

Bet you can't guess which places were crawling with tourists and at which places we enjoyed genuine local culture...