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Originally Posted by Sid70
My Italian experience ...
So, I will try giving some cold facts, no offensive conclusions or
wow positive feedback, but facts only - just some real experience
I am currently having in Italy.
1. Entering the country and driving long distance without any real
pit stop station was a little nervous, you'd have to drive watching
a beautiful scenery while thinking if a gas station would appear
any time soon.
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Really where the fuck did you drive? It isn't as good as France but better than most of North America for pitstops
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2. Since I have entered to Italy from Austria I was on roaming and was
waiting to get to the WiFi area to check emails, surf a little, navigate
google map and stuff. Well, i'd better be prepared that they dont have
any wifi on those Autogrill food stations, no ATM and no money exchange
at all.
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Really? Are you sure you went to Italy?
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3. The streets are real narrow and hotel parking lot can be tiny.
Cars get parked in 2 or 3 rows. So be prepared they would ask for your
car key at the hotel to move it here and there letting others going out or in.
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Sounds like you stayed in someone's house not a hotel
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4. A hair dryer is a mysterious thing to operate, first it needs a special
switcher to be on ( one of 3 in front of the bathoom door, fun is it's not
obvious which button would work ), then you'd have to switch a button on
the wall near the hair dryer On, and finally you can use the thing.
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It's called safety, water and electricity don't mix.
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5. The room has a central air conditioning system that is easy to operate, but
at times you can hear music coming off the vent channel in case someone plays it
loud in their room below or upstairs.
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That is called being in a multi dwelling complex, walls are not always soundproof
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6. I didn't know but Italy has a different electric socket system, so you'd need
a converter, imagine I have arrived iphone battery nearly dead and wanted to go
online on my PC - that's where I figured out it wont last long. Actually, internet
speed itself is rather ok then good, it gets stalled frequently.
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You still haven't told us much about where you've actually been, just talking shit about a shit motel you stayed at again.
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7. Forget your dollars, they dont want it. Banks work only till 1 pm, i was unable to
find any money exchange office on the street, found 3 bank branches with 2 working ATMs - Unicredit and Banko Ri Rimini.
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Dollars in Europe? How fucking dumb are you? ATMs don't have siestas but I think you need a long one if this is your review of Italy.
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8. So I went to try buying a prepaid SIM card for mobile internet then. Firstly they
would ask you for your passport even if its a prepaid, you's have to buy their modem
even if you have one, SIM cards in Italy are blocked or even built in it seems, I was told my modem won't work with their SIM. And the minimum prepaid time is 3 months, comes to EUR99.
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News flash! Things are different in different countries! And this kind of contract is pretty common in most places for mobile internet, it is still a new technology, give it time and you'll be able to tell more people about how bad Italy is because you couldn't connect to the internet, use a plug socket and tell the world about it.
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9. Here in Rimini, it seems like a 'Uzhnoe Butovo' - kinda a Southern Moscow - Russians are everywhere.
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Perhaps this is your problem, did you go to a shit area of Italy?
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10. At some point everything is nominated in EURO and even McDonalds food is more expensive, at some point I must say you'd feel screwed by prices in EURO.
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Maybe this is why the dollar isn't welcome there! Euro is the currency you thick turd.
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11. After 3 days I have become to a conclusion that this country means chill and relax at it's perfect, seems like no one is working, no one is offering you a better service, no one is competing for the client, they just go the beach and eat pizza all night long, since daily it's so damn hot even Italians prefer to relax.
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Oh dear what a pity nevermind, when in Rome do as the Romans do, sounds like you went to Italy and expected an office cubicle with McDonald's and good internet with a bank machine in the corner of said office, what a trip!
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12, It's definitely hot and you'd sweat all day long, especially on arrival, so you'd need
a spair change frequently. Or a laundry done once in 2-3 days. So, before I got the laundry room access key I spent 2 days figuring out how tos about it, apparently there is just one machine in the hotel that can be used by anyone. So then I went there and set for 10 minutes waiting when its done, took someones stuff out ( nobody showed up ) and put mine in for EUR3 a cycle. Next day i tried to find a couple of t-shirts to fit me but their shops are so messy and brutally unorganized i prefered to stick to my 3 shirts and a laundromat 
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Again, where the fuck did you stay? Hostels in Amsterdam have better services!
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13. The sea is amazing. Wide, long beach, very warm water you could stay in all day long.
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Maybe you should have done!