Italians are some of the happiest people in Europe, and Bologna, capital of the Emilia Romagna region, is known as one of the happiest places in Italy. While the Pasta Sisters teach Clive how to make tortellini and reveal why even Italians think Bologna is the best place to eat, Clive dons his hard hat and scales some scaffolding to find out why this city is known as the mediaeval Manhattan.

Clive loves Venice, but on this trip, he wants to learn what it's like to be a local, outnumbered by tourists by over 200 to 1. He hitches a lift with a rare female gondolier and learns the tough craft of steering with one oar, gets a lesson in glass-blowing from his new friend Count Gibi, and finds out why Italian vegetables taste so great as he picks peppers on a farm in the Venetian lagoon.