Even in Venice you can go off the beaten path

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Are you going to travel to Italy, precisely to Venice, soon? Will it be your first time in the biggest tourist trap of Italy?

There's no magic solution to this huge problem in the most unique city of the Bel Paese,  you will always be surrounded by crowds of tourists, but yes, you can travel different! And today we have the pleasure to share with you the tips of an authoritative Italy's blogger and expat! Pamela Haack on her blog "Where Tuscany meets Umbria" says she moved ten years ago to Umbria, with her husband, fell in love with this beautiful land and started traveling all around Italy, always off the beaten track. And thanks to her own experience, she can now give some good suggestions for a trip to Venice.

Ready to travel to Tuscany? Read this before

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Are you going to travel to Italy, precisely to Tuscany, for your first time? If you are not well prepared in Italian geography...maybe you'd better read this post first!

Today we have the pleasure to share with you the (hilarious) reflection of an authoritative Italy's blogger and expat! Krista Ricchi on her blog "Alla Fiorentina" says she moved from Southern California to Florence, in Tuscany, after falling in love with an italian. And thanks to her own experience, she can now teach you what's the most important thing you need to know before visiting Tuscany...

Italia dreaming vs moving to Italy...show me the difference

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Hello Gadders readers! Are you going to travel to Italy for your first time? Or you just made your first steps in the country few days ago?

If you have you been waiting for this moment for years...stop for a moment and read this post first!

Today we have the pleasure to share with you the thoughts and tips of an authoritative Italy's blogger and expat! Sarah Mastroianni on her blog "Not just another Dolce Vita" says she's always been in love with Italy and, indeed, at her 20's, after a master of Arts in Italian studies from the University of Toronto, she decided to move from Canada to Italy!

Sarah noticed that many people come to Italy with high hopes and wrong hopes. She's been fascinated by Italy ever since she can remember and she too had an idealized vision of it, until she finally experienced it! So, she decided to write this post...

Exchange travel experience: museums, gondola and...Venice hospital!

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What happened to today's post protagonist? Don't worry, she didn't end her trip in the hospital!

"She" is Nanna Lára, a curious and energetic food lover from Reykjavík, Iceland. She's a student of economics in the University of Iceland and she's taking an exchange semester at Bocconi University in Milan, during which, like any international student in Italy, she's traveling as crazy!
And she's telling us today about her experience to the charming, touristy but unique Venice!

I haven´t stayed in Italy for long time before the exchange program. I have been here for one month now and traveled to several places.

Exchange travel experience: from Italy to Germany, destination Oktoberfest!

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Hello Gadders readers! You are used to read about italian destinations and travel experiences by expats in Italy, exchange students and foreign travelers who go exploring overlooked, often hidden, corners of the country.

But today's article is an amazing guest post by Gil, an Israeli student from Tel Aviv who just moved to Milan to spend a semester abroad and is going to tell us a slightly different story...

Who: Gil Eckstein, Ran Ben-artzi

Where: Italy, Germany, some Swiss place lost in the mountains too.

When: 2 weeks ago

What: "So it all started in middle school...

Exchange travel experience: hiking the Cinque Terre

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Okay, this is my new favorite place, topping my bed on a Monday morning and bath at Christmas time.

It's how Laura defines Cinque Terre, the awesome natural reserve on the coast of Liguria, in north-west Italy, that hides five small resorts (Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore) for many years been kept free of massive tourism. But since foreign travelers have discovered the amazing landscape of these little towns and the hikeingpaths along the coast, bad transport services hasn't stopped anymore the crowd of tourists coming and going every weekend.

Oh, sorry, I forgot to say who's Laura, but I loved this Intro and couldn't begin other way! 

Milan experience: September 2014. My first week in Italy Vol. 2

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One week ago we told about how two guys from different parts of the world felt and lived their first week in Italy, after they moved to Milan for their university exchange programme. Read their story here. But what about girls?
So, here we are again with the Hectic, Adventurous, Warm! first week of Denise Vollebergh, from the Netherlands.
Denise comes from Rotterdam, the place where she was born and where she goes to the Erasmus University for the degree in Communication and Media. She landed in Milan, Italy, just few days ago, the 2nd of September.

Milan experience: September 2014. My first week in Italy was...

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This is the story that tells the Exciting, Warm, Learning emotions of Mitesh Karwa, from India, and the Exploring, Gelato, Quiet (ghostcity) emotions of John Andre Storebø, from Norway.

But...who are they??

1. They come from...

Mitesh was born and grew up in the Himalayan town of Mirik, India (Cit. "Which has a beautiful lake just like Como and is situated in the lap of nature.")

Italy experience: living Bologna for one year

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This is the story of an Emotional, Life-Changing and Blurry experience as Ben Hayward defined it, 21 years old guy from London, England, who studies German and Italian at Swansea University, in Wales, and spent his last 10 months, from September 2013 to July 2014, living in Bologna, Italy, where he "studied" German, Russian, Finnish and Polish for the Erasmus program (Cit. "If you haven’t already guessed, I like languages!")

My first impact with Italy and Bologna

I had never been to Italy prior to my Erasmus period.