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home is a sunset from one of your favourite place in the world
(photo by Stefano Dell’Aringa)
Baby Pit Stop is a pit stop area in shops, public spaces and pharmacies where a mum can freely breast-feed and change her baby. Promoted by ASL Milano, UNICEF and Baby Consumers, Baby Pit Stop is a network in Milan made of private structures and public commercial spaces (shops, local ASL spaces, drugstores…) where it’s possible to find a comfortable chair for mums, a changing table for babies and, if possible, a play area for sisters and brothers. Mums can also fi nd leafl efts about breast-feeding produced by ASL Milano and by UNICEF. You can find the map of supporting spaces here >> www.babypitstop.it/mappa-baby-pit-stop.
MyHoming supports the project because breast-feeding is a right for all mothers and children and should be a natural, public practice. You probably know that Angela, our co-founder, has just gave birth to Anita, so she takes particularly care of this deal.
Open Wifi Milano is a free WiFi service provided by the Municipality of Milan allowing to surf on the Internet from several sites in the urban area. To use the WiFi you need to own an italian SIM card, register and log in on the specific web site www.info.openwifimilano.it.
Recently the Municipality activated 27 new WiFi spots, reaching 557 access points spread in the 9 city main areas. It’s quite easy to access to Open WiFi: when you are in one of the Open WiFi spots (you find an updated map here) with your smartphone, your tablet or your laptop, you just need to follow the instructions that you find on the page How To Surf.
Each user can surf the Internet for a daily amount of 300 MB of data. Once passed this threshold, the user can surf for one additional hour at the maximum speed allowed; after that, the surfing speed will be limited to 192 kb/s until 00.00AM. The traffic daily amount available will be reset on the next day at 00.00AM. The coverage of openwifimilano is continuously improved and will reach a growing number of city sites.
There are more than 157 thousand people who have been registered already on this service generating more than 1 million and 790 thousand accesses and a traffic of over 268 thousand Gb.
home is where you are free to express your creativity (Archist Series by Federico Babina)
Hotel Aire de Bardenas @ Tudela, Spain
From our correspondent Luisa de Bellis:
If you’re coming to Milan and you aim to get to know the city’s authentical soul, beyond its stereotyped image of “Italian capital of business, fashion, and design”, there is a place that you really can’t miss. Gogol’Ostello is both low budget (but high quality) accomodation – hosting travelers in rooms of 2, 4, or 6 people, all nicely decorated and with private bathroom) AND venue for cultural events. The cozy, colourful, welcoming Cafeteria has become, in a short time, an important meeting point for the multiethnic, open, active community of Milan, and locals come here to enjoy an every-day-different cultural programme.
Gogol’Ostello & Caffè letterario is “a space where travelers can meet people with ideas”, as described by Asli, its founder. So true. The times I have been there, I happened to share a table – and start a conversation with- a writer, a film producer, a photographer. Not to forget the guy who was giving a round to the whole world. These “people with ideas” come here because they feel welcome, being Asli seriously committed to promoting new artists and supporting people with innovative ideas.
This mission is the engine that moves everything: the space, embellished with pieces of local handcraft as well as pieces of furniture designed by people living in the Roman jail Rebibbia (www.artwo.it); the Cafeteria, serving mainly fair trade products, home made beers and tap water only.
gogol’ostello @ milan
Books are everywhere, book crossing is the must, and writers are frequent hosts within the cultural programme. But from classes of psychology to workshops of Feng Shui, from live music performances to photography exhibitions, Gogol’Ostello offers more than anyone else in Milan had ever offered before, in such a tiny place and with such personal touch.
On Wednesdays, foreign travelers can enjoy happy-hour while learning Italian with a professional teacher; happy-hour of Eritrean home made food has become a popular meeting on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, as well as Sunday’s brunch of savoury and sweets.
I know, you are ready to go there now, but you still have a question…what about this weird name? The place is named after the band Gogol Bordello, which Asli is fan of. Not long ago, she received a phone call from the band’s agent, saying the musicians were in town for a concert and were curious to visit this new place they had inspired the name of. A few hours and Asli realized one of those life’s dreams: meeting her favourite band in her favourite place, her own place.
Gogol’Ostello
via Chieti 1, Milan
+39.02.36755522
info@gogolostello.it
home is where you find a new friend
From our correspondent Luisa De Bellis:
I’ve always been a great supporter of traveling by public transport. I strongly believe that is the best way to get to know a country for real, having to cope with strikes, delays, long waits, old ladies chatting, young girls chatting even more, animals sitting on one’s side, and who knows what else. As Italian, I have been traveling widely through my beautiful country by train, bus, ferry, giving myself the chance to meet the most random people with the most incredible stories. And yes, it is the people who make a country. Unfortunately, recently the cost of Italian trains has increased a lot, and this could prevent foreign visitors from traveling though Italy, or expacts living in a city from hopping on a train every weekend to get to know other regions. But there is no reason to worry. There is a fun, easy, comfortable, cheap, safe way to travel through Italy without having to own a car and still being environmentally friendly: it’s called BLA BLA CAR.
This collaborative online platform connects drivers with people looking for a ride. Members create a profile like in any other social network, and they use it to look for drivers/passengers, as well as to give feedbacks about them. The price is set from the platform itself according to the distance, and it is fix: no matter the car gets full or not, the single passenger always pays the same. Feedback about punctuality, flexibility, driving and sociability guarantee that everything will go smoothly.
“the car of love” 31 January 2014 from Milano to Rimini-Ancona-Porto San Giorgio.
A tour leader from Milan (Luisa), a marketing consultant from Rome (driver), a student from Marche (left) and a soldier from Campania (right). Different origins, different destinations, but same reason for traveling: visiting our beloved. Lots of talking and laughing about the hard life of long-distance relationships
I happened to start using Bla Bla Car while living in Florence, as several weekends I needed to go back to Milan. A train Florence – Milan takes two and a half hours and costs 50 euros (unless booked a couple of weeks in advance), a price that almost no one these days is ready to pay. Using Bla Bla Car I used to spend 18 euros for a three and a half hours trip. The people I met traveling this way? I couldn’t recall a name or a face, but could never forget their story. Each and every member of this community has so much life to be told, so much energy to share, and is anxious about getting to know other people’s life experiences. Generally, members are well-educated, very open minded and good travelers. When it comes to passengers from different nationalities, drivers are more than happy to speak another language and genuinely willing to make them feel at home. Be it 1 or 4 hours long, a trip by Bla Bla Car is always a journey. It is not only about getting from A to B. Once you get off the car you are richer than when you got on. And this is what traveling is about.
this house is not a hotel 