Zaroque: So villages and roads. First of all Milan here is one of europe's tightest areas. All the villages are very close together and you can't practically notice when you change a village. The placing of buildings is really confusing. Commonly there's main roads passing through villages, but sideroads can be really confusing, turning very randomly here and there. Practically the sideroads are made around buildings, not the other way around, and are really narrow. My recommendation is to not go anywhere without a guide here
It'd be easy to get lost.
Around shores it's easier. The main road follows the shore and hotels and restaurants aren't far from it. Moving around isn't too difficult at shore. That was today's experience in Piemonte.
For a little warning, you can see here a perfect example of why there's made plenty of small cars in europe. The roads are really narrow, and people hardly follow the speed limits. Sideroads connect directly to the main roads and suddenly appearing cars out of nowhere is a common sight, in villages aswell in normal roads going on the hills. Sudden brakes tend to come too and being even a little slow tends to result in a honk from the driver behind you.
Also highways. They cost. You take a ticket, drive to extraction point, give the ticket to the machine and pay with a credit card. I guess the price is counted by time you use on the road. Highways are mostly property of different companies and the money is used to the upkeep. The speed limit is 130 kmph, but practically people drive 150, and barely give any warning when changing the lane. So overall good reflexes are demanded in Italian roads.
That's pretty much what I can tell.
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So my experience for today was a trip to Piemonte visiting the island of Isolande Bella, belonging to a fairly famous family. The whole island was practically a museum. It was pretty interesting to see the old art, structure and read the history. The place has had a lot of famous visitors in history, including Napoleon. Also, the garden. How awesome was that =3 There were white peacocks around the place. I even fed a piece of bread to one walking around a cafeteria.
