Italy Travel Advice - Why you must travel to Italy!

Let's look at Italy as an ultimate travel destination and catch up with Italy Travel advice from an  ardent Italy Lover!

Once in a life time, you must travel to Italy!

Italy experience can be captured within three refreshing words:

Resemblance, Remembrance and Romance..

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No doubt Italy is beautiful…!

It is Beautiful in its own way..!

Pleasant coastal towns, big mountains, hilly terrains, historical cities,lively people! And striking resemblance with India.. 

Southern Italy is less developed and messy as compared to North...While in India, North Indian states Jharkhand, Uttar pradesh etc are considered less developed as compared to South Indian States. Southern Italy was (is!) the land of Mafia. Income disparity is quite visible. In cities like Naples, bag snatching, pick-pocketing is common they say. One can also spot kids begging for money on the train. Only difference is that kids are well groomed. Buses come and go on their own timing irrespective of the timetable. Trains/locals may get delayed for 10-15 minutes easily. Exception is the bullet train Trenitalia. However, being expensive one can see less crowd (8-10 people) in a compartment. Train/Bus strikes are very common. A person not new to this may have to suffer from wastage of time.

However, remembering Italian holidays is an absolute pleasure. Tourism industry is very well developed. And people all across the world visit Italy for its beauty and its food. If you go to islands Capri, it is just like Andaman. Pristine blue, green water, full of colours and cosiness. It does have few caves like blue cave, green cave and white cave where you can observe the water,surface and glow light of a particular colour. Within these caves blue gretto (cave) is considered the talk of the town. If you are lucky enough, you can get inside the cave. Description of Capri in few words: Nature at its Best!

Capri - Beautiful -Island

Amalfi coast is the coastal area with towns like Positano, Sorrento, Ravello, Amalfi. It resembles with Konkan stretch of Maharashtra. It is connected with each other by just one narrow road. Traffic jam is quite common on this road and driving requires special skills. Sea on one side and a huge mountain on the other side... This area used to be less developed, but tourism has changed the face of all the towns. (Ironically, Tourism is good and bad at the same time!) Here,pleasant time pass is to look at Lime and orange trees cultivation all along the road. Limecello and orangecello are the wines produced from these cultivations. So these wines got established as big brands from this area. (Thanks to tourism!) Tourists buy these wines as souvenirs. One can also get expensive leather flip flops (quite similar to Kolhapuri Chappals) from here :-)

Sorrento Orange trees

Capital city Rome is full of historical statues,monuments and stories. One can see rash driving, two wheeler encroaching, no traffic signals for pedestrians at many places. Unlike other well known European countries, two wheeler vehicles are quite common here. But roaming in Rome is the feeling beyond measure. Northern cities like Venice and Florence come under typical pattern of European cities , but attractive in their own way.

One may know Italy for land of Pasta, Pizza. But worth trying are coffee, cakes, other sweets. One should not come back without eating mouth watering sweets of various types. Italian coffee is also very different and has got unique taste...Coffee + Italy = Heaven on earth!

Italian-coffee

Italian chefs take very much pride in their own recipe. Our Indian tour guide of Venice, once went to Italian restaurant and ordered pasta. He didn’t like the taste and asked for tomato ketchup. The chef turned up and told him politely that,” if you don’t like the taste, please do not eat it. But don’t spoil the recipe by adding another ingredient!” 100% marks for the pride if not for the recipe!

Italian-pizza

Italian-dessert

If you have seen the film by Julia Roberts, “Eat,Pray,Love”, you will understand the importance of the place called Michele’s pizzeria in Naples, where one can get wood oven Pizza. It has thin crust like Roti and quite delicious in its own way! It is considered age old technique of making Pizza. So, it has to be good! (To maintain quality, they just serve two types of Pizza). Tip: Sitting on the same table, as Julia Robert makes it more special!

Michele's-pizza-eat-pray-love

Anyway, one has to be careful to choose the restaurant to eat pizza, otherwise there is very high chance of getting disappointment!

Italians are pleasant and smiling people. Even if they know little English, they will try to communicate, offer hospitality. And they are somewhat lazy too. Afternoon snooze is very much important for them. They are quite romantic types as well. Especially Italian men are considered womanizers..

At Last,

"What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago." --Erica Jong

I hope this short Italy Travel Advice would be useful to you!.