Italy from the Inside

The difference between Italian and US train stations

Inside an Italian train- Italy from the Inside

Some Italian train cars are divided into compartments, while others are open spaces

Train stations in Italy are open spaces, meaning that when it’s time to board your train you don’t have to go through a check-in point (like in Seattle, for example). Once you get to the train station, and after you have purchased your ticket and have validated it, simply locate your train with the help of the indicator board and get on. The ticket conductor will check it during the trip. Note: If you have a seat reservation, there is no need to validate your ticket before getting onboard.

{This is an excerpt from chapter 1 “Transportation” of the eBook “Italy from the Inside. A native Italian reveals the secrets of traveling in Italy”. Buy our eBook on Amazon and leave us a review! If it’s good, you’ll make us happy, if it’s bad, you’ll make us improve. Thank you either way!}

An entire street reserved to scooters

 

Scooter parking- Italy from the InsideIl motorino. This is how the scooter is mainly known in Italy. The number of motorini in Italy is so great that some cities, like Trieste, have decided to turn entire streets into scooter parkings. And yet, sometimes not even that is enough: note the first two scooters on the right and how they are parked outside the marked spaces. Or the one at the end of the walking corridor. That guy clearly preferred to park in “pole position”.

THE Italian truck

 

Ape Piaggio- Italy from the Inside

It is small, not too fast and it buzzes around. Yes, it is the ape (bee) but also the Ape (Piaggio), the Italian truck by definition. Born in 1948 with the goal of providing an inexpensive mean of freight transportation to help Italians during the economical reconstruction of the post-war years, today it has become an icon. Tireless, it still buzzes around on the Italians roads.