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It’s hard to visit Rome without visiting the Colosseum. It is equally impressive during the day as it is at night.
Tip: The line to enter the Colosseum moves rather quickly, so avoid the hagglers that stand outside the entrance offering overpriced guided tours that will allow you to skip the line. The Colosseum offers guided tours or you can rent an audio guide for an additional 5euros or a video guide for an additional 6euros.
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Roma!
We just returned from a mini vacation in Rome so we’ll be sharing our pictures and tips with you throughout the week.
A Presto!
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Sur La Rue: Gaia and Arianna
Name: Gaia Segattini and Arianna Rubiconti
Location: Italy
Which culture most influences your style:
(Gaia) Mens traditional clothing, Japanese fashion designers, origami, early American punk bands and 90’s Riot Grrrls, Blythe dolls.
(Arianna) Basically,I love music and I like people who do not seem to “act.” I’m fascinated by things which sound different,like “trashy” 80’s music to Jeff Buckley and Paul Weller. vintage cars,men suits,multicolor and geometry….. Jil Sander, Balenciaga, Bernard Willhelm, Junia Watanabe, Coco Chanel and many more
Ideal shopping experience and why:
(Gaia) Vintage because it always surprise you and it’s different from everything, handmade because it shows passion of the artisan, outlets because is (sometimes) the only way I can purchase something from my favorite designers that I could never get at retail prices.
(Arianna) I like vintage cause you can find something unique and often you can also smell a “story” or invent one. Outlets are “reality”….. they give you the chance to buy something beautiful with normal money. I like to buy things when I travel, I love to wander and find interesting shops; in general I’m fascinated by great stores with great designers but they also scare me cause I feel like “ok I can’t afford anything and the shop assistant already hates me”. In the end I do prefer small shops and I think that now is a period in which we have to face the reality: the lack of quality and the standardization of many mass-product is definitely boring. Handmade will become more important.
Monday’s Country Codes
When we are out enjoying our favorite spots there is one thing that makes the moment even better: ice cream. Yes, ice cream! And as ice cream connoisseurs, we have discovered that ice cream really varies depending on where in the world you are.
Turkey
In Turkey, ice cream is known as donduram and has a very unique texture. At first glance, it appears really creamy and perfectly firm. Then you take a lick to discover a long trail of ice cream following you and realize its better tackled with a spoon. This is because Turkish ice cream is made with salep and mastic. Salep gives the ice cream the thick texture and the mastic makes the cream chewy, almost like gum or taffy.
Italy
The famous gelato Italian ice cream is super creamy and has very rich flavors. It contains less sugar and a lot less butterfat than most other ice creams and because of the complicated way its made, it creates a more dense and flavorful cream.
We especially like the way gelato is displayed in most gelaterias which makes it hard to resist.
Second image from Allison Oden
Brazil
Brazil is an ice cream nation. The everyday soft ice cream can be found anywhere and its not uncommon to see bus and taxicab drivers end their route with a sorvete break. Ice cream cones, galeto, soft ice cream and major brands are all found here but what distinguished Brazilian ice cream from the rest are their flavors, especially inside sorveterias. Some flavors include açai, pineapple with mint, pumpkin with coconut, sweet potato, cashew, tapioca, corn and various cheese flavors like Parmesan.
Japan
Another ice cream nation, Japan is known for their wide ranging ice cream flavors as well as their mochi ice cream, pounded sticky rice filled with ice cream. Japanese ice cream contains many flavors with some of the most popular being green tea, black sesame and red beans among others.
What are some of your favorite flavors or types of ice cream?
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