Italy
Born here · lived most of my life here
School trip / travel stay
Personal trip / place i lived
Italy is where i was born and raised, so writing about it feels strange; you don't really "visit" the place you call home. But i've moved around enough inside it to have real opinions. Some regions, as you can see, i visited with school trips like Borromeo islands (Piemonte), Comacchio (Emilia Romagna), Ravenna (Emilia Romagna). And some regions i visited by myself, in particular:
- Anzio/Latina, Rome (Lazio): where i took half day to go to Vatican City as well
- Verona, Venezia (Veneto): i prefer lakes over seas/oceans and Garda lake is one of my favourites.
- Brescia, Cremona, Milano (Lombardy): my home towns.
- Trento, Bolzano (Trentino Alto-Adige): where i used to go hiking, especially on summer.
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India
2009 · origins
My family roots are here, so the trip in 2009. I used to stay mostly in Punjab, countryside. Visited Himachal Pradesh in 2022, in particular
Kullu, Rewalsar and Manali. In 2024 i had a road trip from Agra to the Pink city Jaipur, in Rajasthan. First time i ridden a Dromedary; India
taught me a lot of things, especially how to live a slower life and enjoy little moments, because most of things are temporary. It also taught me
how to deal with merchant. I got lucky that i have an indian skin, if i had been a foreigner, i would have been scammed easily. Rajasthan
specifically felt like another planet — the colour palette, the architecture, the temperature. Jaipur is the kind of places that make you feel
that European cities are, by comparison, very young and very modest.
The food gap between "authentic Indian" and what gets sold as Indian food in European restaurants is enormous. Not just in quality in variety. What
most Europeans call "Indian food" is basically one regional subset of one community's cooking.
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