Two months have passed since my departure from Italy and even in difficult moments I have never regretted the choice and I’m feeling really good, but there are three things I miss: food, people, and culture. Even though it may seem ugly, I put the food first because it is related to it several times during a day.
Italian cuisine for us remains a very strong heritage, and when you travel as much as you can appreciate and love the cuisine of the visited place, this is one of the flaws that you will feel the weight of. It’s not just pasta or pizza, but of an infinite variety of dishes, but for example, bread that in Italy is so discounted but abroad is not so, smells, smells and flavors of a unique cuisine world.
Because as much as you can go to the supermarket and buy the ingredients for cooking something Italian will never be the same thing and start thinking about how nice to eat your lasagna or pasta at your mom’s bakery.
Aside from the food argument, I miss exactly the things and the people I was sure would have missed.
In the era of internet and social networks, it is easy to feel or see with their loved ones but the distance not only geographically with Europe and Italy is still felt a lot, it is very difficult to reconcile your commitments with those of the person Which you want to call due to the time zone. Even today I happen to have the desire to vent myself with someone and then to make a phone call and then realize that in Italy is early or early in the morning and so it is not possible. And anyway, we will soon realize that inevitably, you will lose important events that you are in.
The third aspect is culture, history, monuments.
Sydney has many beautiful places to visit and where to spend time and I think it is a beautiful city, but I think there is no comparison with other European cities.
There are no squares where to walk and although there is some monument is not so significant and it is a small part of the huge city that is definitely characterized by scratchcards and a futuristic skyline. Same thing for cultural events almost completely absent except in the opera house and museums that have permanent and non-collections.
In short, I have the impression, and of course it is a completely personal opinion, which beyond beauty aesthetics is a soulless city, a city that does not move, does not excite you anymore. And for me, it is to be borne in the lack of history considering that it is talking about a relatively young country (Why open this museum?).
I already knew that this was not a suitable place for me, certainly, you live well and the beautiful thing is to have so many green spaces and a sea just a stone’s throw from the city, but it’s not in my ropes to live in such a country. Besides, I went to test myself, to visit one of the farthest countries in the world and to improve my English.
I think a traveler decides to go to Australia, not for his people or his culture as for the unique landscapes and fauna in the world.