GOING BACK HOME AFTER A PANDEMIC 

I'm so happy that you're finally able to make the return trip back to your home country! It must be so disheartening to not be able to visit for so long. I loved the interactions between your family, especially sharing the meals together. Hope you cherish your time in Italy!

Your eyes and energy are different when you are in Italy and that moment when you have eaten normal quality food closing the eyes and crying of happiness 👏🏻😅😂😂😂😂

I thought the explanation of the water filtering system that your father gave was very interesting!

Welcome home Mary Jane...Not in my wildest dreams would I have thought that it would have taken so long to say those words! I was a relatively new subscriber to your channel, having subscribed to it in the fall of 2019, and later joining as one of your Patreon members in January 2020. I remember that February day when we all wished for you to have a safe trip to America. We all thought that you would have been back in three weeks. Little did anyone know then what was about to happen. There is little reason to go over the extraordinary chain of events which have occurred over the last 15 months. Those of us who have been your subscribers have all lived through them. I for one, have felt like I have been riding on an emotional roller coaster that was out of control. It's hard for me to explain to you how I felt while I was watching this vlog. All I can say is, I felt a calming sense of relief. The roller coaster ride has finally come to an end...Welcome home Mary Jane!

Ennio Morricone alla fine, piango. Non vedo l’ora di ritornare a Venezia per la Mostra del Cinema. Conto i giorni, le ore, i minuti, i secondi..

Mi hai fatto scendere la lacrimuccia Mary... spero di rivedere l'aeroporto di Venezia presto anch'io e la mia famiglia riunita. Saluta l'Italia per me e goditi ogni respiro, sapore, suono ed emozione

Incredibile vedere Venezia così vuota! Comunque, bentornata!

Constructive comment: "we take things for granted", not "we give things for granted." Awesome video!

I can feel the love you have for your family and Italy bursting from this video. Thank you for sharing your reunion with us. I cried tears of joy throughout. Venice is beautiful. I look forward to visiting one day. I also look forward to seeing more videos from your home country. Enjoy your time there!! XXX

You look so happy...glad you made it back.

Your talent for choosing music that pulls out and conveys the emotion of the moment is genius.

È sempre bellissimo seguire le tue lezioni...sei strabellissina e strabrava tutto qui..hug dal Pigiiiiiiiiiiii 💓💓💓

There's no place like home! Also thanks for the very important message at the end of the video.

Oh Mary Jane, I had tears in my eyes when I heard you say you planned on not seeing your parents/family for 3 weeks but it turned into over a year, I’m so happy that your home!!! You are a resilient young woman and I admire your ability to make the best of your time being stuck in the US and bringing us along for the journey

Grazie per quello che hai fatto! È così commovente!!

BENTORNATA !!!!1 YOU RE SOOO BEAUTIFUL MARU !!! ALL THE BEST AND LOTS OF LOVE !

I'll never understand those tourists who stop in Venice for only a few hours via a cruise. Not only is it horrible for Venice and the environment overall, but you don't really get to know the city. Venice was my favorite place I visited in Italy in 2018. I stayed for several days and got to learn about it and really soak it in.

Very nice! Thanks for sharing your return to this beautiful city and reuniting with your family.

Love seeing Venice through your eyes. I can tell you really missed your home

I felt all the emotions that you had seeing your family - very touching! Very well structured video. It made me want to go to Venice (it is on my bucket list) even more. That "sandwich" looked really delicious! I look forward to your videos in Italy. Be safe and enjoy your family time - it is precious!

Amazing video, very touching also, especially for an Italian living abroad... loved it ❤️

such a cute video,and the part where u met your parents was so emotional.

Bentornata!!

So happy to see you finally home! Enjoy your time with your family 💕

congratulations! Mary Jane. I hope You have happy days with your family!!

One of your best works.... with Nostalgia. I fill you!

So happy for you! I love watching families reuniting after such a tough year. I'm waiting to return from New York to my home country of Australia, can't wait!

Loved the music and introduction. Such a beautiful place to visit!

It's great to see you happy in your natural Italian habitat and thank you for the beautiful Venice city tour. Have a great time with your family and take care!👍

Happy to see you safely made it back home♥️ Venice is so very beautiful ❤️ I cannot wait to visit your beautiful country again ♥️ NYC misses you but you're where you should be at this moment, cannot wait to see your videos of Italy 🥰

Beautifully done, MJ. So glad you're with your family and back home at last! Venice looks absolutely magnificent...maybe I'll get there one day. Enjoy yourself and looking forward to your Italy vlogs! ☮🌻

Love your video , love italy, this video make me want to go back so much to Venise

Mary Jane I am so happy for you! Thank goodness you had the upbeat music once you got to Venice because I was crying watching your beautiful family reunion. Thank you for sharing this video with all of us!

discovered your videos today, and totally in love with your coverage of Italy and FVG!

This video is super at the end I was crying…very touchy. You are incredible to transmit a feeling. The choice of the sound track is outstanding…especially at the end ! Welcome back Mary.

Emotional, beautifully filmed and edited. Enjoy your family!

This is such a touching video. I really felt your joy in returning to Venice. I hope you'll find more and more happiness from being at home with your family now.

Did you cry at the airport? I did, just while watching the video. After so much absence, you feel like kissing the ground when you get home, not just your family. There must have been great emotion. Welcome home.

I have never seen such joy in a person. Welcome home! You renew my heart.

Congrats girl..finally back to home sweet home. I'm happy you made it. Enjoy yr stay with yr love ones.!

I loved this so much!! Really happy for you and your family to be together at last. I showed my mum your message about the cruise ships as she’s at that age.. she has been to Venice as a young lady and wants to revisit, but not on a ship.

Welcome home 😍 mum and dad looks so happy😍😍😍

Awesome to see you reunited with your family ❤️😊🤗

Thank you for sharing some of your time, back home. Italy has always been on my list of places to visit. I suffer from flight anxiety, and that's something I don't know if I can ever fix. Trust me, if I could beat that, I'd definitely hop a plane and stay for a month or two. It looks so beautiful and peaceful! Enjoy your time back home, spending it with family. Looking forward to seeing what you have to share in the upcoming videos.

Mary Jane ,so thrilled for you to go home and see your family!! ❤️🙏✌️I will continue following you much love and peace ☮️ bye for now

At last!! Have a wonderful time with your family. I'm so happy for you MJ. I too am missing Italy so much. I felt like I was going over the Liberty Bridge with you. I always get so excited crossing that bridge. 😊 😘

Video piacevole da guardare. Belle le musiche utilizzate per il video. Carina anche la parte finale delle scene tagliate. Ben tornata in Italia 😊

Such an amazing and emotional video! I'm so glad you got to go back home to see your family and loved ones. I visited Venice in 2016 and loved it! It was way more crowded when I was there and I remember all the horror stories about the cruise ships coming. Can't wait to see more of your videos :)

I am very happy that you can go home with your family, your happiness your energy is different when you are with your family, your happiness shows , greetings

Hey i have watched your all video , in 3 days really feeling happy and going to travel the world mindfully , highly inspired by you .

Thanks for this video.

This is a very beautiful video! Superb editing job! The closeup shots of the Tramezzini sandwiches... oh, Dio! Really touching video. The patience and love your father has for you... reminds me of my own father. Just very beautiful. Thanks for sharing!

So happy for you.!!! Finally home. Don't forget us.

Oh ! It's beautiful 💚❤💛

Ahh, so lovely to see you back home with your family and friends. I'm sure it was a very emotional reunion. So happy for you Mary Jane!

Welcome back!

Best video production yet! What a great movie you have produced.

We miss you Mary Jane. But your family misses you more. And there’s nothing like having family time together. I hope to see you back here again. You will always be a NYC Gal :)

It's hard for me to admit this Mary Jane, This video truly moved me to tears of joy, and it is very hard to make this man cry. Praise God! ✝️🙏 you made it home to see your family. I don't think I'll make it to Italy Mary Jane, I'm getting old. Please remember Mary Jane, Italy is a part of who you are. Wherever you go and whatever you do you share with us Italy. Thank you for that Mary Jane. Mary Jane you have proven that the old saying is very true. "Home is Where the Heart Is." Peace and Prayers be with you Mary Jane. ✝️🙏

Nice to see you back in Italy! I hope to see videos about bella Italia soon. 🙂 I personally cannot wait to move to Florence in October!!! ❤🇮🇹

Ma che bello stile nell’editing di questo video!!! Bentornata!

What a great video, honestly I was a bit moved with the reunion at the airport. The city of Venice is even more beautiful then even in pictures, your Country is rich in history. I'm happy for you, welcome back to ur home. Thanks for sharing it.

Just a word: empatico. Grande!

Varda che ben, ti xe anca tornada casa! Welcome back home! It's great to see u with your family!

you've given us so many great videos, but this one was the best. good luck back home. if you ever go to santorini, now that it's right around the corner from where you're at, say hi to my family for me.

This video is so so so freaking awesome! And I’m crying 😅🙄🥺🥺🥺

Sono diventato totalmente dipendente da te e i tuoi video :) Ottimo lavoro, i tuoi video si fanno guardare tutti di un fiato.

Auguri da un Friulano in Toronto. Spero molto di tornare prossimo anno a Udine e Venezia che, per me, e la più bella città del mondo! Mandi!!!

I thought I was the only one who made those faces when eating in Italy!! If one good thing can come out of the Pandemic it’s for us all to treasure the things we take for granted and perhaps think more of how we impact our world. I know when I travel again there will be more trains and less planes. Glad you’re finally reunited with your family. Thank you for a beautiful film that bought back many happy memories of my trip to Venice in January 2019… Venezia è sacra.

You really went to town on that sandwich, I really like all the filings and to see some taking food appreciation to the next level

Bravissima. Soprattutto per il discorso finale. Grazie.

What a stunning and moving vlog!! It’s so nice to see you reunited with your family! I can’t believe you were able to make such a beautiful impression of Venice in such a short time; I know you have grown a lot as a filmmaker, but it’s still amazing to watch. Were those cicchetti that you were eating from Alessandra whom you interviewed in one of your earlier vlogs about Venice?

Bentornata a casa!👍💞

Beautiful video! Hello from Croazia and you are right “please no more 🚢”

Happy to ser you at home finally! ☀️ It would be lovely if you could vlog and presets as many different cities and hidden places in Italy for us who wish to visit your beautiful country 😀

It's always nice to be able to go home. How exciting 😀

Your parents are very sweet, as a good Bassanese I fully agree with what you said and ate!!!!

Loved your video! 💗 Enjoy with your family!Regards from México 💕💕🙌

Glad you finally made it back home to your family. This is what it's about now. Getting back to living and being with our families.

Glad to see you've returned home safely after an extremely long stay over here in NYC which I know had to be more than eventful for you through 16 months away from home. A hell of a chain of events huh? 😅 May your reunion with your family and friends be a joyous one and for certain I know you'll be back here at least before the end of the year. 😁 Take care MJ.

I had no idea about the cruise ships...wow, I hope that this situation results in respect for the city and not big business/money. Glad you finally got to see your parents, loved the tour of Venice!

Quanto è bello tornare a casa ☺️🤗

Thanks for the recommends!

A sweet and well-constructed video - - "reads" more like a short documentary. I was immediately struck by the visual comparisons between Manhattan and Venice, microcosms of the US and Italy, respectively. The contrast, so stunning. One could see the American aesthetic with boundless energy and optimism, but ultimately a market-driven landscape. Whereas the Italian scenes revealed a culture rightfully obsessed with aesthetics. As an American of Italian heritage I have a foot firmly planted in both worlds. Kudos, MaryJane . . . there's substance to your beauty.

Straordinario video! Brava

Seeing you walk out of the airport brings back memories. I'm glad you made it back home MJ! 😊 OMG!!! Tramezzino con tonno e oliva is my favorite! It's the perfect lunch. I've never seen Venice that empty. 😳 I can't believe there's hardly any people in Piazza San Marco. I hope you enjoy your time home. I'll definitely be in touch.

Welcome back to beautiful Italy.

Ben tornata!!!

Beautiful....... a quiet Venice.......

another lovely film mary jane! your dad looked very proud at 9:55, but also very hungry and wanting to attack those sandwiches :D

Welcome back ❤️🇮🇹

Spettacolare inizio cinematico! Complimenti

Bentornata!

You are a pro.. you filmed, edited, sounded, and commented a terrific video in such a short short time... :)

Welcome Home Mary Jane! I wish you so much love with your family and so many memories for you all! All my love from New Brunswick, Canada! I hope to meet you one day when I move to New York

Sono contentissimo per te 🙏🏼💯 anch'io non vedo l'ora per Italia quest'estate

So happy that you finally got to see your family again. I completely understand how you feel. Unfortunately, I am not lucky enough to travel yet due to travel/work/quarantine rules. Enjoy your time with your family & in your home country... looking forward to your next vlog. And thank you for the Venice tour.

subscribed :) and look forward to your journey back at home .. happy holidays :)

E SI VA SUBITO IN CAMPO!!! 😂💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 Magnificent vlog, I feel you so much! ❤️

Truly one of the most beautiful places in the world