Corey Salzano

Category: 2024 Italy Trip

I went to Italy for 16 days in the early summer of 2024 with the love of my life and her family. We visited Belluno, Losego, Venice, Salzano, the Dolomites via La Poza, Verona, and Milan.

  • They don’t slice pizza in Italy

    They don’t slice pizza in Italy

    One of the most surprising things I learned while visiting Italy was pizzas are not sliced. I looked around the restaurant we chose for our first dinner and saw everyone sawing through pizza with butter knives!

    Photos of unsliced pizzas

    The reason for this silliness is to prevent the pizza from cooling down. Italians bring food to the table as soon as it is ready, and do not hold dishes under a lamp so they can be served all at the same time.

    We learned the cheat code

    If you say the pizza is to share, they slice it! It’s not as if they do not have pizza slicers in the back. They do, and they’ll use them if you say every pizza will be shared among the table.

    Before we learned the workaround, I bought and carried small scissors to restaurants. Here’s a photo that I’ve been told is very embarrassing to people who love me. Cutting pizza with a butter knife is embarrassing!

    This post is part of a series I wrote at the end of a 16-day trip to Italy in June 2024. Find all the posts about my trip here.

  • European Bidets are a Total Let Down

    I bought bidet attachments for my toilets during the pandemic. Not because there was a paper shortage, but because the reviews were great.

    I went to Europe and used a few standalone, European bidets. I was not impressed. They required me to use more paper than I would with no bidet! You have to get up and move from one seat to another. Surprisingly, the $110 Tushy toilet seat attachment I’m using now is better than anything I saw in Italy. The United States truly is the greatest country in the world.

    I was traveling with some non-bidet users, so I found instructions to help us where the first two steps are “1. Use the toilet” and “2. Locate and sit on the bidet.” https://toiletseek.com/stand-alone-bidet-how-use-pros-cons/

    You want me to get up and move? No thanks.

    This post is part of a series I wrote at the end of a 16-day trip to Italy in June 2024. Find all the posts about my trip here.