(Walking on the street, apart from the Asian faces that appeared in groups wearing little red hats, which were 100% certain to be Chinese, basically most of the tourists walking on the streets of Italy were Koreans! Yunluo approached them twice and thought that the Chinese people were Koreans! Not to mention those Koreans who were obviously Koreans at first glance...

Many times you can hear people speaking Korean on the street. What is going on? !) Next to Milan Cathedral is the famous carved dome shopping street - Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II. Various Italian luxury brands gather here. The local tycoon Prada has opened two flagship stores here, one for men and one for women...

There is another attraction near Via Manzoni, the Brera Gallery, which is said to be one of the most important collections of Italian paintings. However, when Yunluo and An Chuyu went there, it was closed (it was a holiday on Liberation Day, as you know). Except for the galleries that required payment to see, all the corridors and squares were still open.

There are also some painters selling their paintings at the entrance of the art gallery. Of course, if you feel that there are not enough brand stores in the gallery, you can walk 10 minutes to the nearby Manzoni Street where big brands are concentrated. All major brands have stores there, including Audi cars... The local tycoon Armani has a building there...

In addition to the flagship stores of big brands, the food nearby is also very famous in Milan, and there is also a cake shop with a history of more than 200 years! Yunluo and An Chuyu originally planned to go shopping near the Peace Gate, but they asked the staff at the tourist center and they were told that the parade would start at 2 pm, so Yunluo and An Chuyu had to give up the Peace Gate.

Then they went back to the cathedral and waited... Then... Yunluo experienced the essence of Italian laziness. At 2:30, there was still no movement in the square. Yunluo and An Chuyu had no choice but to ask the people who seemed to be parade staff if there was a parade today. They got a positive answer, and then they said they were not sure about the specific start time.

It could be 3 o'clock. Hmm...it could also be 4 o'clock...who knows? Finally, at 3:45, the parade finally arrived at the square...Then the leaders gave speeches for more than an hour...The commemorative process of each country is really similar...

In the end, Yunluo and An Chuyu returned to the hotel without watching the entire celebration ceremony, dragging their luggage to the airport. There is a special bus from the Central Railway Station to the airport. If you want to refund the tax, please arrive 3 hours in advance, otherwise it is easy to miss the plane (especially if there is a Chinese flight in front, you will see a 30-meter-long queue waiting for the tax refund).

The guy at the tax refund counter speaks pretty good Chinese. But! What Yunluo wants to complain about here is that it’s an international airport… When Yunluo thought there would be rows of duty-free shops calling for Yunluo, Yunluo only saw a few brand stores… and when Yunluo passed the customs and planned to go shopping, there were only a few convenience stores!

There are quite a few restaurants... It seems that they regard the airport as just an airport...

In addition to the luxurious facilities on the planes, the meals on the planes of this airline are also luxurious, even if you are sitting in economy class. Want red wine? No problem! A small bottle of red wine is yours! Want foreign wine? No problem! A small bottle of Martell is also yours! Want hot water? ...Uh... Yunluo and An Chuyu do not provide hot water...

Please pour it yourself in the last cabin of the plane! In addition to the hot water, other services are very good. I recommend you to try it once if you have the chance. As for how rich the Dubai Airport is, let's take an example. Every airport is equipped with a lot of clocks to remind everyone not to delay the flight time.

All the clocks at Dubai Airport are Rolex brand... Seeing these clocks, Yunluo couldn't help but wonder, if I could move one back home, would I be able to buy a toilet in the Third Ring Road of Beijing? In addition to the clocks, Dubai Airport has three waiting rooms, each of which is as big as Beijing T3... The central area of ​​each waiting room is full!

All of them are duty-free stores! L’Oreal is sold as cheap skin care products in the daily necessities section! Ordinary Apple products in the digital store can no longer satisfy the needs of the rich. Yunluo saw an 18k gold-plated IP6plus... The lucky draws were Ferrari 2015 models and Bentley... Yunluo could only say silently, you city people really know how to have fun!

In the huge waiting room, in addition to shops, there are also massage rooms that charge by the minute; nail salons that charge by the minute; bars, coffee bars, Chinese restaurants, McDonald's... all accept credit cards. UnionPay also offers a 5% discount (only for shopping). As for the shopping part, according to the popular science of my friends, don't buy clothes or scarves.

These are all goods from Chinese channels. Luxury goods are not as cheap as those in Europe and I don’t recommend buying them, but the watches (only those above 30,000) and gold there are very value-for-money choices. In addition, the magic lamps and silverware that are specialties of Arabia are also excellent choices... After listening to his friend’s popular science, Yunluo could only silently say, you city people are really rich!

As for the settlement currency, the UAE uses AED uniformly, and the exchange rate is about 1:1.7. Although I feel that some things in the UAE are very glittering and dazzling, the Internet part of the airport is particularly worth complaining about. For such a wealthy dog ​​family, the Internet is only free for 1 hour?! There is a charge for exceeding the time.

But the waiter here said that you can change the built-in time of the phone for 1 hour and continue to connect...

If you do not go through a travel agency, the hotel accommodation fee includes accommodation and taxes. The hotel can be booked on booking or dodo first, but the tourist tax is paid at checkout, about 5 euros per person per day. 2. Air tickets: Because of the World Expo, Italy is currently considered a peak tourist season.

Economy class tickets are around 4,000 one-way including tax, and Russian Airlines has some special tickets. 3. Train tickets: You can consider buying them online first. If you book one month in advance, you can get a very cheap discount. The cost of three tickets for two people from Rome to Florence to Venice to Milan is no more than 1,000 RMB.

4. Food and Beverage: The tap water in Italy is not drinkable. It will produce a lot of scale when you drink it. It is recommended to buy bottled water. A bottle of 300 ml of drinking water costs between 1 Euro and 1.7 Euro. Drinking water is divided into purified water and soda water. If you are not used to drinking soda water, remember to order natural! As for food and beverage, even McDonald's is fine.

A regular meal for two people costs 17 Euros, and a more advanced meal costs 75 Euros. If you just order pasta or pizza, a meal for two people will cost about 20-30 Euros. 5. Clothing: We count luxury goods separately. Generally speaking, it is common to spend about 20 Euros on a piece of clothing. The brand is probably something like H&M.

There are also some that are as expensive as 100 Euros, and they are basically all from MadeinChina and other magical countries other than China (the only MadeinChina I bought in Italy was a McQueen skirt... really... embarrassing). In fact, I personally recommend Italian textiles. After all, it is one of their specialties.

6. Toilets: That's right! Toilets in Italy are charged! And it's 1 Euro per use! No matter how big or small... If you dine in a restaurant, you can use their toilets for free, but McDonald's toilets... Well, Yunluo has been there... It charged Yunluo 0.8 Euros... You can do the math... This is the most expensive toilet Yunluo has ever been to!

7. Prices: Prices vary from place to place in Italy. I don’t know where the cheapest is, but the most expensive is Venice, where a gondola ride for 30 minutes costs 80 euros! (If you are good at Italian, you can bargain. Someone bargained down to 30 euros, but that person is not Yunluo.) Overall, excluding the airfare and hotel fees paid before the trip.

Food and beverages are probably the most expensive item. After all, if you don't take Uber, a day ticket is actually less than 10 euros. But food...it depends on what you eat...A cheap McDonald's costs 9 euros per person. Over the past few days, you will spend at least 100 euros on food and water.

Exit Information: There are 4 types of Schengen visas: a, b, c, and d. For personal travel, a C visa is usually issued, which means you can travel to any country in the EU within the visa period. If you are unlucky enough to get a D visa, you can only travel in one country. The time limit of a C visa is also different, some have 90 days, and most have 30 days.

But I don't know why Yunluo has a friend whose Schengen C visa is only valid for 7 days...just enough for them to travel back and forth. So when the visa is issued, you must pay attention to your visa time. In addition, you don't need to fill out an entry card to go to EU countries. You can just come down and get a stamp from the Italian handsome guy and leave the country. Food 1. You must order cappuccino when you go to Italy.

This is their unique skill. Yunluo drank their cappuccino and latte in the same cafe. He found that the taste of cappuccino is much better than that of latte. 2. In Italy, all coffee or food (except ice cream) are charged a service fee when sitting down to eat. They also call it tablecloth fee, which is about 2 euros per person.

So most Italians drink coffee standing up, but I don't know why you can sit and eat ice cream... Don't ask Yunluo why... 3. Another specialty of Italy is tiramisu. The production methods vary from place to place, but they are all very delicious! In addition, the bread there is also very delicious!

As long as it's bread, it's delicious! 4. The fruits in Italy are very fresh. Strawberries are about 1.5 euros per kilogram (Yunluo bought them in Venice, where prices are the highest). The RMB equivalent is about the same as the market price in Beijing. But Yunluo's strawberries were packed in the bag for a whole day, and they were still juicy and had no bad spots after washing...

In addition, kiwis in Italy seem to be extremely popular... 5. The famous Italian ice cream is about 3 Euros for 2 scoops. It will be slightly cheaper in Florence, but there doesn't seem to be any ice cream seller in Venice... Preparations before the trip 1. Train tickets to and from various places are discounted for well-known reasons.

Therefore, it is recommended to start paying attention to train ticket information one month before your trip. You can usually buy cheap discounted tickets. There are two train operators in Italy, Trenitalia and NTV (also called Italo, which is invested by Ferrari). But in fact, there are more than just these two companies running trains on Italian railways.

There are also various companies from other EU countries, so don't be surprised if you get on a strange train. I recommend you to take the NTV company's train Italo (the trains of this company are marked with NV or NTV on the front of the ticket), commonly known as the rabbit train (because their logo is a running rabbit).

The train is all beautiful Ferrari red, and the seats are very comfortable. There is wifi on the train (you need the password on your ticket to log in), and it runs the fastest! Of course, the most important point is that Sheldon is said to like this train very much... This train cannot be purchased from the Trenitalia website that provides various European rail tickets on the Internet.

(Nonsense. Not the same company). Yunluo bought it on Ctrip. There should be other ways to buy it. Rome-Florence: Discounted tickets are 170/2. It is hard to find. You need to check it more often. Florence-Venice: Discounted tickets are 170/2. This is often available. Yunluo waited for a long time. This is really the cheapest Venice-Milan.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

There are no discount tickets. I don't know if it's because of the World Expo, but Yunluo has been using it for more than a month and there is no discount! 2. Vatican Express Ticket If you want to visit the Vatican, please don't queue up to buy tickets to save money! You must buy a reservation ticket! Because from 9 am to 3 pm, the Vatican line is always 500 meters long...

The speed of letting people in at the Vatican is also obvious to all, so if you really want to queue up, be prepared to queue for at least 2 hours (every day!). No matter how early you think you are, there will always be people in front of you... If you have a reserved ticket, it will basically take about 15 minutes from the end of the queue to the entrance of the Vatican, including ticket exchange and queuing for security check.

You spend so much money on traveling, your time is precious, don't waste it in queues! 3. Various apps Google Maps: must-have software, no one! Although Google is blocked in China, it is really the best search engine abroad. As long as you remember the name of the place you want to go (most of them need Italian.

But the famous attractions are also in Chinese), and it can get you there very accurately and quickly, and it also comes with a timetable for transportation. If you want to walk abroad without asking for help, you must follow Google Maps! In addition, it also provides some dining and shopping information in the surrounding areas. Ye An Chu Yu: Dianping has not yet covered Europe.

So if you want to find something delicious, you can download Ye An Chu Yu. The only downside is that this is an app developed by foreigners, so the all-English interface is not very user-friendly. Later, Yun Luo and An Chu Yu realized another way to order food, which is to save the food you want to eat on your phone. For the food you don't want to eat, draw an x ​​and save it on your phone.

When ordering, just show them the pictures! (All the menus in Italian restaurants are in text, so you can’t imagine what the dishes will look like) Qiongyou Trip Assistant: The useful thing about this app is that you can plan your itinerary in advance and store it in it. But Yunluo thinks the most useful thing about it is that it has the addresses of all the attractions you want to go to.

If you can't find the way to the scenic spot, you can copy the address of the scenic spot here, and then search it with Google Maps, so you will basically not get the navigation wrong. Especially in a place like Venice where the streets are crisscrossed, it is very convenient to find scenic spots! 4. Toothbrush, comb, toothpaste Italy is now promoting green environmental protection.

Therefore, many star hotels do not provide toothbrushes, toothpaste and combs. It is best to bring your own. If you see that the hotel does not have slippers, you can ask the front desk for them. Basically, four-star hotels will prepare them at the front desk, and five-star hotels will have them in the room. Transportation Rome Rome is a very developed tourist city.

Therefore, if you are a foreign tourist (I don't know if it counts as being within the EU), you can bring your passport to the tourist service center at the central train station to buy the "Rome Pass". If I remember correctly, you can also buy it at the self-service ticket machines in the subway. The Rome Pass is divided into two types: 2-day and 3-day cards. Please note that the definition of 2 days in Italy is actually 48 hours.

That is, starting from the time you first use the card, you can use the Rome Pass to ride all the subways, buses and trams in Italy (railways are not included) within 48 or 72 hours, so you don’t have to worry even if you use the card at night! The price is actually quite cost-effective if you include museum tickets.

A 2-day card costs 28 euros, and a 3-day card costs 36 euros. In terms of transportation, the subway covers the entire city of Rome. There are subways near several major attractions, but the bus is closer. However, both modes of transportation will not announce the stops, so you have to check for yourself. Another thing to say is that I don’t know if Yunluo and Anchu met Lucky or if it’s just like that.

One time, Yunluo and An Chuyu saw a bus they were going to take at a red light. They got on and shook their heads. It actually! opened! the door! and let Yunluo get on... Rome also has various sightseeing buses. The general price is 20 euros for 24 hours, and there are also 48-hour buses for a slightly higher price. Each company's sightseeing buses have two floors.

There are explanations in various languages ​​for tourists to learn about the attractions. Generally, there are Chinese explanations, but it is not ruled out that there are not. If you want to take the bus, it is best to ask whether there is a Chinese explanation before getting on the bus. It is worth spending so much money. One of the companies is called citysighteeingroma, which should be quite large.

If you buy their bus tickets, you can use the ticket stub to take the same bus in Florence and get a 5% discount. The sightseeing bus station is easy to find, near each tourist attraction. If you want to buy tickets, there are newsstands and shops nearby. However, it is recommended that domestic tourists still book tickets online, otherwise it will be very difficult to speak English with people for a long time.

If you book your tickets online, you can just take the ticket and get on the train. There are three train stations in Rome, namely the central train station Romatermini, Romatiburtina and Romaostiense. Romatermini is the closest to the city center, followed by Romatiburtina. (To be continued...)