"EXPO Milan 2015"

[alvin]

Originally Posted by luger.parabellum

when people talk about Italy they just refer to common places like mafia, pizza and so on

We knew a little bit more.

A friend has visited many countries in the world, including Italy. He was a clarinet player when he was in high school and knew there was a song "Come back to Sorranto". While he's in Italy, he saw a town named Sorranto on his travel map, but he's not sure that's the town in the song or not. But he still remembered the tune of the song, so asked local people, they told him "That's the one". He immediately drove there, the impression was so great, including the road leading to Sorranto with beautiful views.

Another story was on football ticket. He told us football game's ticket is very expensive in Beijing... could go $1000 on black market if players are well known European teams. While in Rome, there was a game. He and a few friends met a guy selling tickets, asking $250. They didn't know local price, so happily paid $250 per ticket to the seller. In the stadium, they figured their "neighbors" only paid $19. "Even the other good side behind cameras was $50". They were very surprised. Even more surprisingly, this "news" spreading like wild fire, once a while a viewer came over asking "Did you indeed pay $250 for the ticket?" After get positive answer, the queryer was happy, waving toward the direction where he came, "Yeah!!! they did!!!"