I am an American who vacationed in Italy for week. AMA

I spent the majority of the trip in Rome with my last day in Italy in Florence before I flew back to the United States. I took tours of Rome in a day, ate at various restaurants, shopped in many stores and market places, saw Pompeii and even noticed some things Italy did better than the United States and the US did some things better than Italy.

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Be nice

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why did you go around Naples? that's like the Detroit of Italy. was it just for Pompeii?

Just Pompeii, yes. We never went into Naples, even my tour guide said Naples isn't like Rome or Florence, you have to be careful there. We did go to Sorrento and it was lovely there.

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Different country, different ways
Same overlords, same misery.

I enjoyed my time in Italy, obviously I didn't get a full grasp on the internal situation because I was with my friends and we were on a schedule but I will say that when I went into the leather market of Florence I made the comment about how the US should do something similar since some people are willing to pay more for higher quality goods and she agreed by saying people are getting sick of Chinese products.

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you should just visit every place as quickly as you can
pic related is our future

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I would have loved spending more time there, things honestly felt calmer than here in the states. Even Rome had many white people.

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I won't bore Jow Forums with the specifics, but HOLY SHIT, Italians are ignorant. I was told that "Italians never eat alone" and I made a mistake of eating alone in one of their restaurants. The man asked what I wanted in Italian and I responded "Pizza di ... pepperoni?". Since I'm in Italy, I want the real shit.

He slapped the back of my neck as hard AS HE COULD and said "PAY-PAY-RONEEEEEE, PAY-PAY-RONEEE?"

I'll leave it at that, I wanted to clock that motherfucker in the jaw.

Another time, I was minding my own fucking business and an elderly man approached me and he was pointing to his wrist. I didn't understand what he was saying, but I eventually understood he wanted me to adjust his watch for him. When I told him I don't understand Italian that well, but am more than happy to adjust his watch, he said "AMERICANO ... GO OUT..... AMERICANO? GO OUT TO HERE!"

You just politely try to eat by yourself, they're cocksuckers, you politely try to an elderly person, they're cocksuckers, that's all there is to it.

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Go away faggot, unless you acted like an actual asshole no Italian ever acted like that.

why would you go to such a retarded place

oh wait, you're probably "italian" bro, live in NJ and fist pump on the reg.

is this a copypasta? it's kind of hilarious

>AMERICANO ... GO OUT..... AMERICANO? GO OUT TO HERE!

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>why would you go to such a retarded place
Italy is a beautiful country

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I'm Italian and this pasta is stale

thank you

Looks like shit

My phone is old, it was actually a very sunny day and the view was really good. I hate my phone

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looks like brazil

In some parts it definitely felt that way

yeah well that's the south, what did you expect?

Why do you go to other countries and go shopping? Seems like a faggy thing to do.

>Not getting authentic Italian leather products for your family for Christmas
Are you a nigger?

t. poorfag

Were the centers of the old towns completely filled with tourists shops? I went to Spain and Portugal in the summer and was very disappointed to see entire blocks selling gimmicky shit and gelato.

Planning on spending a summer out in Rome to really get a feel for the language and culture. Know any good school for that out there?

Though Venice also sounds like a good place to try for it seems like it would be quite a bit more expensive.

Nope, maybe Venice

Why the fuck do I need genuine Italian leather for my family?
Shut up you lil queer. Id be out fishing, hiking, meeting with the locals and your faggit ass would be in the mall with your purse shopping like a woman.

Yes there were many vendors selling non-Italian products to tourists, you have to actually go into the market for genuine products.

Do you maybe have a recommendation for me my man?

It's not US, every 20 minutes you find an historic city. Go to Padoa and take trains to Venice, Bologna, Verona

>Not doing everything while you are there
You sure sound gay user there should be no problem doing all the extra activities and getting some stuff to bring home.

Imagine going to a country known for specific products and not buying what they're known for. What a pathetic life you live.

Consider Verona. Halfway between Milano and Venice. In the summer the Arena of Verona hosts a plethora of musical events, from opera to contemporary international artists.
You can take a bus to Valpolicella, one of the most beautiful places in the world, imho, famous for its wine.

Plus, it's close to lake Garda, which on summer is filled with qt German and Dutch girls.

Now that I thibk there should be an Italian summer school in Perugia

Thanks anons, I will keep this in mind

I will look into it

Lol you dumb nigger i can go to my local walmart and can get leather belts just the same. Wallets? They have those too. What a pathetic jackass.

If you want something a little more particular try to look for Dolomit Learning, which is a couple that organises stay for US students in a more typically Italian environment: you can learn to cook, to speak italian and so forth.

>Dude, let me get my cheap Chinese knock-off, fuck having a real, genuine, long-lasting, wallet/belt/etc.

>Not going to Naples
You missed the best pizza of Italy then.

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Yes, I was told that. I wanted to stop and eat but the tour had to go on. Real shame.

The difference with Detroit is that Naples is 98%+ ethnically Siculo-neapolitan.

This is the people that has been invading Lombardy with 10 millions colonists of settlement since the 1950s.

Put that aborted version of the Mexican flag down the toilet, user.

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I will have to take note of them too. Also is there anything in Sardinia?
I would imagine it would be more of a short term visit thing rather than going there to learn.

I liked Naples. It felt very authentic, and the people there were very passionate and enthusiastic about....everything. I truly felt like I was in Italy. There were hardly any tourists because of its reputation. I totally knew why people avoided it. First, before going into the city we were pulled over in our rental car because apparently it wasn't allowed...but really they just wanted bribes. We couldn't speak Italian so we just acted really stupid and they got frustrated and let us go. Next, some guy on a scooter snatched my phone out of my hand, but luckily he dropped it. There was trash piled up everywhere. Traffic was India-tier. I tried to do a Grindr hookup and I walked to this guy's commieblock (?) and the doors weren't numbered. I asked the neighbors and they started yelling his name. When I got to his door, his wife answered and I saw him yelling in the background with a spaghetti stained wifebeater. His name was Luigi lol. Unfortunately, couldn't get dick that day because I realized I was in the slums...and there weren't any niggers but there were a lot of sad, angry Italians just staring at me. It was truly terrifying. I saw Mt. Vesuvius in the distance. It had a weird shape to it. Very cyberpunk, very bizarre city.
Pizza was so delicious, I still can't stop thinking about it. The alleyways were very narrow and sketchy. The metro stations were really cool with their modern art and graffiti.

It was dingy and scary but fuck I loved it so much.

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I'm going to spend new years eve in Naples, how fucked am I?

Florence is great. Did you go to one of the steakhouses?

We didn't have time, I really wanted to try a T-bone steak

>I tried to do a Grindr hookup and I walked to this guy's commieblock (?) and the doors weren't numbered.

Haha you fucking ignorant peasant. Comparing anything in Walmart to proper quality leather products, which the Italians are particularly good at. Go back to your double wide and take another pull on the meth pipe Cletus

Naples is an african tier shithole. Fuck pizza, it's nigger food anyway, the city should be nuked and every Italian should take a piss/shit on its ruins in order to get citizenship and demonstrate he is disgusted by what it represented. That's what actual italians think about this disgusting hellhole, go back to Africa.

Damn, you gotta go back and try some. It is the rarest steak I’ve ever had but also the best.

Kek it's probably the worst time
They have a tradition in Naples to use firecrackers big as IEDs, be aware, every years ton of people lose hands operating those bombs

are italians white?

Sardinia is full of tourists in the summer, it gets expensive.

that is a Richard Lynn based fake map, you are a fucktard with a low IQ. That loser irish professor has mystified statistics used to verify the quality of the public education in the world (the Programme for International Student Assessment) for IQ tests.

In Rome I felt the population was 50% white and 45% swarthy with the last 5% being niggers, poos, and chinks. Florence had a lot of whites though. All of my tour guides were white except for one and he was swarthy.

what do they put on those panini bread sandwiches they look amazing

like this
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Yea, also be very careful walking the streets. It's tradition in Naples to throw old dishwashers and other electronics from the window (Really actually not joking look it up.). And also be careful where you walk because it's tradition to shoot guns randomly at new years eve at midnight, so every year in naples there are many injured for rogue bullets.
Honestly I don't know why anyone would like to spend holydays in such a place.

Those are PISA scores.
Not IQ
Although both are somewhat correlated.

Naples is renowned to be a warzone around new years eve. Find shelter and store food and water

> Fucked?

Yes. Bring yourself a bulletproof vest. Don't go outside after 10pm and until 6am. Don't stay close to windows. Safest places are under ground. If you have a car or bike is lost.

t. welcome to terroniland

Yeah Naples in NYE is basically a Middle Eastern city.
The problem is that they do that shit everywhere they go and they are fucking everywhere

This is a nationalist board, pic related if you dont love your country. You're the only nigger here.

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How is Sardinia in the off season?

Shit I knew it, any other advice? I usually dress very bourgeoisy because richfag, I'm going to be robbed?

Not our fault if (((Savoia))) invaded Napoli and made it part of Italy

I don't blame you user, but i hate the fact that people associate Naples to be the most autentic Italian city. Try to imagine if people look at the worst place in America and think that's the REAL country and repeat that shit ad infinitum by everyone. Fuck Naples!

Empty, and it's difficult to get out of it
I think it's not worth it for a quick visit
Don't sport a beautiful watch and dress normally

Empty but beautiful, not much to do, don't expect to go to the mainland to visit often without spending major $$$.

If you are there for a couple of week at best then it's ok, look up local festivals.

Gennarino spotted.
News flash for you. You're not Italian, you're not even european. You're not even a nigger, you are much much worse. You're a disgusting, swarthy, degenerate neapolitan subhuman. No one wants here. No one wants you in Italy. You stand for everything that is not civilization, every single Italian from north to south wants your volcano to erupt and destroy your disgusting city. Always remember that.

Sardinia is a more tourist place and very expensive as well (unless you go there in spring or autumn) and universities there are just average. Biggest campuses for Americans are in Florence and Rome but they are essentially US 2.0, it would be like being in the US but with some Italian features (well, if you like that go for it obviously).
Assuming you are a guy, you could try for some seasonal work like a male au-pair if they exist (a friend of mine is in California now being an au-pair) or something related to summer jobs.
If it is solely to study, then look also at the organisations US-Italy that have a few programs to come here and study.

>new years eve in Naples
Are you suicidal?

Love the architecture, what's this ? (name)

Just don't wear expensive watches. That's the most priced target because it's the easiest one. Also wear your wallet in a tight pocket. That should be enough, if you do these things you can be sure another tourist fag will be much more unprepared than you and so they will target him.
They can understand how easy it is to rob you from miles away, you just have to present yourself as a non optimal target.

that's the Vittoriano in Rome

I will keep that in mind, however if I go there for education I would rather not go to some place that caters specifically to Americans, I would rather get the experience the locals get. Also I wouldn't have recommended Cali to your friend but to each his own.

Damnit, I usually spend Christmas in Italy but this year my dumbfuck father's wife planned everything, I have been trying to make reservations at Michelin star restaurants because she didn't even thought about dinning in new years eve.
I remember spending a new years eve in Amsterdam and being terrified at the fireworks and explosions, now Im fucking terrified

Vittoriano, it's recent

Altare della Patria

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Wow nice politics retard!

Saged and reported.

Kek well don't go in back streets, run in the hotel with your wife to have "new year sex" so you won't be forced to wander in the city after midnight

A friend of mine took a bike trip with his girlfriend through germany, crossed to switzerland and then to italy. He said the trip was lovely, until they got to italy. Apparently italians don't like bicycles and many were shouting at them, insulting them and shoving them aside. Then when they tried to go back to germany they tried to get on a train but the trains didn't allow bicycles on them so it was a nightmare to get out.

I've never been to italy but I guess I'll visit some day... without a bicycle.

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>now Im fucking terrified
As you should be, for spending new year's eve in Napoli, kek.

>M-must b-buy trinkets
Fucking Mutt

beautifully fascist

>Florence had a lot of whites though
Was Florence better than Rome ? (in terms of architecture)... You mean there's less immigrants in Florence ?

Thanks it's stunning !

Got it wrong sorry, ok no sex plan... You are fucked

Check out South Tyrol/Bolzano-Alto Adige. One of the most scenic places I've ever been to in Italy last year. Sadly I don't see a lot of people recommending this place, was very pleasantly surprised

>Not buying long-lasting, high-quality products

I think you're the personification of why we are not white unironically.
I always take a look at brit/pol/, kraut/pol/ or Trump generale threads and there is no right winger who shit about his country or part of their country.
Also look at all these Italy anons: they came here in a thread made by an American, who want to talk about its trip in Italy, and they shitted all over his thread saying stupid thing about Naples. If this dont remember you niggers behaviour...I dont know what to do.

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Florence is a tourist destination, it only has a population of 382,258 so it's small and your only problem is running into a shit ton of chinks in museums being annoying bug people. I'd say go to Rome for the architecture and Florence for the art.

we are not white,there is nothing to see here

400k in Italy it's not small at all

Pepperoni is not a thing. Its a made up shitty pizza that you eat. If you come to italy and say “Pepperoni” it means Peppers, and if you say that around me i’ll rock your shit. Ignorant faggot.

That bitch in your photo is hapa

>My county in Virginia is 380k population
>We consider this to be small town rural level.
Im kinda surprised.

why do people always come up with crazy bullshit i've never heard about my country? As far as i know people here are ok with bicycles, you see groups of cyclists all the time so i don't known what you're talking about.