The costs are prohibitive these days, but trust me from someone who goes to Europe every year, there's no country near Italy that's "remote."
If you were such good mates over the years, maybe this is an ideal opportunity to have a conversation about what your objections are, why you two stopped talking - really why he stopped talking to you and why it bothered you. If that's a conversation you don't want to have or just don't think's that valuable, then there's your answer.
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