Livigno

250 km from Milan there is a valley high in the mountains called Livigno.

It is a special place not only for skiing in the winter and going in the summer to walk around, it is a special place in Italy in which you can buy a lot of goods at a special price without tax including gasoline. You can simply understand how many people go there during all the year long.

In winter no matter how much snow you can find in other places, in Livigno there are always at least one meters half and you can ski on a soft icy mantle shining in the sun every day during the cold season. In summer the valley is covered by a green grass mantle and many field mountain flowers, cows are grazing everywhere producing super tasty milk (and chocolate ...), you can walk everywhere and also take a horse if you want to go around.

On the road to go there there are many apple cultivations and you can buy apples and fresh apple juice during entire september, apples are yellowish/reddish, small but incredibly tasty and are absolutely fantastic to make apple pie ;-P

Everytime we go there we buy chockolate bars, stock cubes, the tipical pasta pizzoccheri, bresaola, sometimes some perfume items. You can find dresses, foods, alcohol, watches, cameras, computers, radios, every kind of item you can imagine without tax. There is a maximum you can take away, around 350 euro, mpore than that you will pay tax if you are stopped at customs and discovered ... many people buy many items and hide in their cars hoping nobody will stop and find and most of the times it works ^___^

But the cutest thing is that, thinking at now when in Milan is 38 degress and so humid, in Livigno is fresh, so incredibly fresh that at 5.00 or 6.00 PM you need to wear a feather jacket and kids like Momichan need a berret that covers ears to protect from chilly air ^____^

Normally we wake up at 9.00 AM and after having prepared we leave arriving in Livigno just after lunch (we have lunch in some McDonald's or supermarket coffe shops or other), we walk around till 5.00 PM and after we have a break with something to eat (salami, ham...) and a coffee or aperitivo, then we walk around for another 40 minutes more or less and about 6.30 PM we start to leave. We always have dinner at a restaurant called Rosendarten, and arrive home more or less around midnight.