Ordering a cappuccino after 11 am is the 8th deadly sin

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I love black coffee the most and cappuccino, which is so perfect in Italy that I forget about everything else. But Italians drink cappuccino in the morning and then ignore it and drink other types of coffee. Foreigners drink cappuccino all day long. Including me.

“American?” the waiter at the hotel asked me after I ordered my fifth cappuccino between 3 and 8 p.m. on the third day in a row. “Nope, my neighbor from Croatia ,” I replied, and then we talked about cappuccino for 15 minutes in a mixture of English and Italian, hands and feet.

Buy all tickets online
Although the Italian concept of time is elastic to say the least, the denmark whatsapp list thing you can do on your Italian trip is waste time. The most effective way to waste time is waiting in lines to buy a ticket for a museum or local attraction, because standing in the sun is not pleasant, and sometimes the wait can stretch for hours.

Experienced travelers find this funny, as do Italians, because they all know that tickets can be purchased online, printed at home, or saved to the phone we all carry with us all the time.

If you are planning to visit museums and interesting locations that require a fee, don't forget that we live in the 21st century, that technology is here to help us, and that the internet makes life easier. If you like sunbathing, then buying tickets on the spot is the best idea.

Ask and you shall receive, but expect to cause scandal.
Italians take their coffee and their food very seriously. So seriously that, unless you're in a very touristy place where you'll get tasteless tourist food and the staff can't wait to get rid of you because the customers are moving around like on a conveyor belt, some things just don't go together and aren't logical, so don't expect them.

This means cappuccino after 11am (although you'll get it when you ask for it) and a few other little things that aren't normal by Italian rules. I once asked for parmigiano and almost killed the waiter. It turned out that parmigiano didn't go on my pasta, although, after my shocked look, he quickly came over and grated the cheese on my pasta.

In Italy, as in the rest of the world, the rule is – if you don't ask, you won't get. Although, here you might get more, at the very least an odd look, a comment, and probably a laugh after they make sure you can't hear them.

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In Italy, food is very regional, and local is the best.
In the south of Italy I fell in love with cannoli, anyone who has watched The Godfather knows what it is. For anyone who hasn't, cannoli is a round, baked pastry filled with a spread that varies in flavor but always contains ricotta cheese.

Cannoli cannot be found in any part of Italy except the south. Likewise, pizza differs from region to region, so in the south it has a thick, puffy and softer crust, while in Tuscany the crust is almost non-existent and is flush with the entire pizza.

If you want to eat basil pesto, you'll go to Genoa, and for bolognese, to Bologna. Tomatoes in salads are always riper and sweeter in the south, while in the north they prefer them less ripe. Spaghetti al pomodoro is considered an insult because it is a simple dish and you won't find it on the menu in restaurants that pride themselves on traditional authentic cuisine.

The same goes for fettuccine alfredo, which 90% of Italians have never heard of but Americans are familiar with, which is an immediate sign that it is a tourist trap, as well as dishes with tourist-sounding names like lasagne alla bolognese , prosciutto e melone, or cotoletta alla milanese . Non-existent Italian dishes that will cost you too much, have nothing to do with tradition, and were usually frozen, pre-prepared, and reheated.

Italy is a beautiful country full of places worth exploring, especially smaller towns that look like they've been painted by great Renaissance masters. If you haven't, you should visit it at least once, and then it will be good for you to know as much as possible about the location you're going to.