As "an American in Florence," what Patricia Haskel Freund started out as a hobby has blossomed into a growing business: Ex-Pat Personal Tours. People traveling to Italy have many options for sightseeing and tourism. Ex-Pat offers many unique advantages over traditional tour companies:

WHO ARE WE?

After years of living in Florence, Italy, Patricia Haskel Freund, a trilingual New York University graduate in Communications, began a company to help Americans traveling to Rome, Florence and Tuscany. Becoming a bridge between the two cultures, Ex-Pat can help you or your clients feel at home in three of Italy’s most noteworthy locations.

Every company member, be it our landlords, tour guides, drivers, chefs, teachers are all experts in their fields and filled with pride to show you or your clients their personal 'Italia.' Many of Ex-Pat Personal Tours company members are long time friends of President Patricia Haskel Freund and have had years of experience working with Americans showing them priveledged, private entrances into their Italian worlds.

WHAT WE DO?

• Ex-Pat Personal Tours can arrange any aspect of your stay in Rome, Florence and/or Tuscany. Be it your desire to rent a villa or apartment, drivers or special car rentals, art-historic touring, cooking classes, personal chefs, baby-sitters, language lessons, 18 holes of golf, or maybe even tennis lessons. You name it and we will make it happen for you.

• Customized half-day, full day or multiple day tours will cater to you or your clients individual interests, needs and desires. Click here for rates.

• Ex-Pat Personal Tours specializes in "rare finds" of Rome, Florence and Tuscany: Dine in the restaurants popular among the locals not those descending from tour buses, meet the artisans of The Oltrano in Florence or on Via Margutta in Rome, shop the flea-markets of Piazza dei Ciompi in Florence, experience both city’s more unknown spectacular look-out points, and of course, find the best 'shopping' bargains. Ex-Pat's staff will take you or your clients places large tour groups never see.

• Ex-Pat also specializes in shopping tours for those items you collect, desire or never thought you would be able to afford. Leave it to Ex-Pat to fill your home, closets and suitcases.

• Ex-Pat Personal Tours will bring you or your clients back raving.