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Practical Italy

A guide to navigating the practical things in Italy such as bus stops, road signs, buying tickets and shopping. From a beautiful Lake Como perspective.

​And also from a Padua perspective.

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Getting around the station

23/9/2014

 
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This year we used Malpensa airport in Milan. It was quite easy to get there from Tremezzo. First a bus to the bus station in Como. Then a 2-minute walk to the Como Lago railway station. We took the Milan Cardorna train changing at Saronno to catch the Malpensa Express.

uscita = exit. The opposite is either entrata or ingresso.  
piazza = square
sottopassaggio = underpass
ai binari = to platforms 2-3-4-5-6
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ai is a contraction (squeezing together) of a (to) and i (the).
binario is a platform. Notice how the plural has only one final i instead of binarii (which you might expect given the rule of the final 'o' becoming 'i' in the plural).

Binary with its meaning of 'two' really refers to the tracks in Italian as you can see from this common sign forbidding people to cross the track (which they frequently do).
vietato attraversare i binari


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