Italy
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Prepaid 4G SIM card in Italy: How much does it cost? Where to buy it?
Contrary to France, which is used to cell phone subscriptions, the Italians have more of a culture of prepaid SIM cards. As a tourist, you won’t have any difficulty to get one. First of all, you should know that Italy being a European Union country, if you have a French phone plan, you can use it at no extra cost. You can therefore : Use your usual subscription. Buy a prepaid SIM card in France (like Lebara for example) before you leave. When you arrive in Italy, you will receive an SMS confirming that you can use your SIM card normally.The only small inconvenience is that you will not have…
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How to Receive Parcels in Italy? Relay, Lockers, Poste Restante, Fermopoint
You have the standard solution: directly at home in Italy. I’ve seen a lot of delivery people, who make the effort to ring the bell at people’s homes. However, if you are away, as the Italian mailbox is often small, they won’t hesitate to leave the package in the hall (even if the front door is open). As an ex-parisian, it stresses me a lot lol. This option isn’t possible for me because the intercom at my home in Rome does not work :'( If you are traveling and staying on Airbnb, you must encounter the same problem. How can I receive my mail or parcels in Italy when I…
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A day in Milan (Italy): Duomo Cathedral, Sforza Castle, Science Museum
It’s with much delay that I put online this travel diary on Milan 😀 If you remember, we were in Turin, which is only 1 hour by train from Milan. So we made the round trip during the day to visit Milan Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary Train Turin => Milan We book train tickets the day before on trainline.fr (it’s very convenient, they cover a large part of the trips in Europe too). So for about 50€/person, we can make the return trip during the day with the company italotreno Even the station is too pretty! And with its old streetcars, Milan…
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Attend a Torino Football Club match at the Olympic Stadium in Turin (Italy) – part 5
After attending a Juventus match in Turin, this time I’m going to discover the other club in the city, the Torino Football Club The Torino Football Club To be honest I don’t know the Torino any better than that. In spite of its long history (the club was founded in 1906), it’s been a while since it’s been playing the leading roles in Italy Even without really knowing the club, any soccer fan worthy of the name knows the emblem of the club: the bull, and recognizes its famous burgundy red jersey THE star and captain of the team is the striker Andrea Belotti, most of the flocked fan jerseys…
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Gelateria La Romana: the Best Ice Cream of Turin (Italy) – part 4
Italian gastronomy is pastas, pizzas and ice cream! And indeed, there are glaciers on every corner. As we are amateurs, we tested some of them during our walks in the city. All in all, it’s a treat every time, Italian ice creams are incomparable with those we are used to eating elsewhere. Until you find the top of the top: Gelateria La Romana. Founded in 1947, this ice-cream parlour has become a franchise but the production remains artisanal and the ice-creams are a KILLDOWN! Most of the brand’s stores are in Italy but there are a few stores in Spain and Austria. I am announcing that when we stop traveling…
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Turin (Italy): The Museum of Cinema – part 3
Ciao! I hope everything is going well for you Today, I take you to see the Cinema Museum in Turin, which is, along with the Egyptian Museum, a must-see in the city Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary Museum of Cinema The museum is located inside a beautiful building called: Mole Antonelliana The part that interests me the most is the first one, the one that presents the techniques and tools used at the beginning of cinema to create animated (or 3D) images There are a lot of machines that I didn’t know about at all and that I particularly enjoy, since it’s made…
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Turin (Italy): Visit of the Juventus Museum – part 2
After attending a Juventus match in Turin, I saw that it was possible to visit the museum as well as the stadium (with backstage discovery: the changing rooms, the corridor leading to the pitch, …). I’ve already made similar visits to Barcelona (the Camp Nou) and Saint-Denis (the Stade de France), so I’m interested! Reading the reviews on Tripadvisor, I note that it is advisable to buy your ticket on the internet beforehand to avoid the long queue (in the sun!). That’s what I do on their dedicated website. The ticket costs 15 € and you have to choose the day of the visit and if you want to come…
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Turin (Italy): 1st impressions, our Airbnb & the Egyptian Museum – part 1
Buongiorno! Today we bring you to Italy, and more precisely to Turin, for 20 days of pizza, pasta, mozzarella etc… Except for a brief border crossing on a weekend, this is the first time we’ve actually stayed in Italy. Part 1: Travel Diary Part 2: Practical Tips Part 1: Travel Diary Chamonix trip => Turin Having obtained a late check-out, we leave our rented apartment in Chamonix at 4pm, and wait for the bus in the bar just in front of the bus terminal. I talk about “bus terminal” but it looks more like a parking lot. Our Flixbus is 10 minutes late, the driver only speaks to us in…
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Attend a Juventus game at the Allianz Stadium (Italy)
Being a soccer fan, it is difficult not to consider attending a Juventus match while staying in Turin. As soon as we arrived, I inquired and saw with pleasure that a tasty Juventus of Turin vs Lazio of Rome would take place during our stay… before disappointing when I saw the price of the remaining tickets. So I gave up the idea of attending a match of The Old Lady, until Anh (who doesn’t know much about soccer) told me again: “It’s Juventus of Turin anyway, it’s mythical”. You didn’t have to tell me twice! Juventus of Turin is one of the best clubs in Europe and has won the…
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Learn Italian to travel. My opinion about the methods Michel Thomas, MosaLingua (promo code inside) & Coffe Break Italian
this post is NOT sponsored Italian, along with Portuguese and Spanish… has always been on my list of languages to learn If I am really serious about learning Spanish (my goal is to become fluent in Spanish), I limit my knowledge of Portuguese and Italian to basic, tourist conversations (asking for directions, ordering in restaurants, buying a metro ticket etc.) – because we don’t spend much time in Italy, Portugal or Brazil As we spend 20 days in Turin, I started Italian a week before After my two articles on learning Spanish and Portuguese, I bring you the same methods for Italian: Michel Thomas, MosaLingua and CoffeeBreak Italian Michel Thomas:…