In 2010, I moved to Milan. I had already been to Italy several times but always as a tourist or within my family. During one year, I stayed with Erasmus people and observed the Italians from the outside. When I finished school, I started hanging out with Italians and even moved in with one. I suddenly discover another world… I changed from the icy girl that could not stand “the Italian noisy/maccho behaviour” to the girl actually enjoying everyday their "bizarreries". I decided that I should share my experience with non Italians.

This is how it starts….

NB: I would like to mention that even if sometimes I’m a bit sharp and sarcastic, it’s more a way of emphasizing how I ve been surprised by the difference of culture. Being not Italian, you will probably always be in a cultural learning process; but the only thing that I know, now that I'm back to France, each time I hear some Italians speaking, I think it's like singing and that they're performing a show, the show of living, which makes me immediately smile...

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Da Peppo (Bar la Darsena) in Navigli


Since I started hanging out with my Italian housemate, I took the biweekly habit to go “da Pepuccio”. Located in Navigli, the place is a bar/tabaccheria and people usually go there to buy cheap beers to go or pack of cigarettes.
But, if you decide to stay at the counter for a coffee or an amaro, you suddenly start looking around, and you realize that you entered a different world, like a parallel world where old generation and new generation meet. On the walls, black and white pictures of jazzmen and poems about Milan. Everything around looks old, the light is doom, some blues/jazz music is on. People are incredible there, in the same tiny location, you can find from the homeless, the old poet to the fashion guy. Everybody hangs out there without being judged. You go there for a coffee and turn back home with a social experience (and a lollilop for the girls*). This is what I like in Milan, people mix. How many times I saw a girl with prada shoes &vuitton bag, hanging out with a pink hair gay guy and a streetstyle girl… I can tell you, you’ll never see this in Paris…

customer experience shared : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH4xgzI0x34

* Peppucio,the owner gives a “lecca lecca” to every girl that order something.

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