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

Milano: an ugly city ?


People usually say that Milan is an ugly city. I’m used to this comment cause I come from Grenoble in France and people think the same. Well, as for Grenoble, I think people simply does not know how to look. Of course Milan is not Venice or Roma, but this is not the foggy polluted city with slums they pretend. Milano is like a city to hunt and luckily I love hunting :-) 
After the World war destruction, new buildings have been built but it is only to give more richness to the city. In Milan, all the architectures are mixed. I like spending hours walking in streets I discover along the walk and rising my eyes to see the beauty of the facades. Milan is a city to discover slowly to appreciate all its beauty, cause I’m telling you, beauty is hidden everywhere in this town…



Link that could maybe make you understand why Milan is like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdvRxWcJuuI

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