Any curiosity about life in Italy? How it is really like to live in the northern part of the boot shaped peninsula?

So, I am a father, I love and have cats and dogs, live in a small town in northern Italy, and and I work full time in a field related to software, technology and loosely transportation. I also lived in Rome, one of the biggest northern italy metropolies, and in smaller places like Pisa.

In a previous life I traveled around lots of the world and in my current life I am training for an Ironman.

All of this, while living in the above mentioned country.

Specially for US lemmiers, but also people from other parts of the world, anything you want me to explain, clarify or just answer about all of the above?

    • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Nope! None of my kids got sky lessons from school. We took them to the slopes to get lessons tough.

      None of them currently lime skying too much actually. My wife does, but not the sky with the slopes, what we call “scialpinismo” where you put skins under the sky and go also up without lifts

        • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euOPEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          Yes! Cross country skying was the word.

          Too difficult for my skills… But yes, it’s the best. Also very dangerous around here as the risk of avalanches can be really high.

          • Logi@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 days ago

            Cross Country is usually on narrow skis mostly on the flats.

            The skins and convertible bindings is some times called randoné, like in French, or ski touring or backcountry skiing.

            • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euOPEnglish
              1·
              5 days ago

              Yeah, true. In my mind, both cross-country and randoné have a feeling of leisure skying on a nice easy landscape but “scialpinismo” has the “alpinismo” word in it which means to actually climb a mountain, and in fact scialpinismo has a strong technical skill requirement as you will be skinning up steep slopes with very high risk of avalanches and skying down techincal, steep and or narrow ledges and edges… i don’t think they really translare correctly.

              In scialpinismo you might very well have your crampons and iceaxe, put skying on the back and climb up ice or rocks as well on the route.