The holidays are approaching and there are many ways to face them. The most popular among Italians, according to a recent CONI statistic, are: sofa-sweat-TV series, beach-disco-candida, backpack. Evidently this post is dedicated to the last category, a type of holiday that requires little money to spend, a marked aptitude for getting into trouble and no aptitude for being milked by the tourism industry.
If you too prefer a nap on a park bench to a deckchair, if tuna and breadsticks are the only fish dinner you have on holiday, if leisure is synonymous with a fight for survival , well, you’ve come to the right place.
Here’s a list of things that only backpackers will understand
#1. You can even put your clothes folded in your backpack, but after a kilometer on foot they will be an indistinguishable lump of fabric.
#2. During those nights out in the open you discovered that your backpack also makes a great pillow.
#3. At the beginning of your vacation you’re charged up like a Duracell, at the end of your vacation you’re crawling like a snail under the weight of your backpack.
#4. “Which supermarket are we going to for lunch today?”
#5. Every evening it’s as if master Geppetto had spent the day sawing off your shoulders.
#6. You feel much closer to a Uighur on vacation with a backpack than to an Italian with a trolley.
#7. Take much more public transportation on vacation than during the rest of the year.
#8. Failure: A vacation where you don’t risk your life at least a couple of times.
#9. On a journey you travel, the stuff that those who spend a week in a tourist village do is called agony.
#10. Sad people go to equipped beaches during the day, you go to wild ones at night.
#11. You have more travel anecdotes to tell than Corto Maltese with his logorrhea.
#12. You don’t know if you drink in the evening to get drunk or to warm up for yet another night on the street.
#13. In two weeks you spend what someone staying in a hotel spends in two days.
#14. Have breakfast at Liuk or Wacko’s at least once per vacation.
#15. Main expense of the holiday: beers.
#16. A vacation without a sleeping bag is called hospitalization.
#17. You manage to keep dirty clothes separate from clean clothes. For a couple of days.
#18. You’ve learned to travel with only what you need, and then some.
#19. “What did you see on vacation?” Death in the face.
#20. You want to start an association that helps trolley carriers.
