Buongiorno from Italy, where I just made my first visit to the VicenzaOro show (still running through Jan. 23!). Thanks to the Italian Exhibition Group, I was fortunate enough to be part of an international hosted press delegation, and I don’t think it’s the prosecco talking when I say that this show is fantasticoin every way. (But let’s not discount the importance of a periodic glass of prosecco. And when I say periodic, I mean at lunch, while you’re at a booth admiring jewelry, at the end of the day in an Aperol Spritz.…)

Thanks to my fellow American journalists for making the trip so much fun and to the exhibitors who were so welcoming and friendly. Watch this space for more coverage soon, but in the meantime, here are just a few things I learned from my first VO.