Memories of an unforgettable journey Part 1
The first travel is like the first kiss, you will never forget it!
It was the summer of 1986, right after the graduation from my School of Nursing, when my fiancé and I, with a couple friends of ours, set off for our first big adventure in the world. I don't remenber who was the planner, but I can't forget the excitiment before our departure.
Our budget was really low, around 600.000 lire per person (around 300 euros now) for two weeks on a road trip across Europe.
We loaded the Citroën 2 CV, owened by our friends, with two Canadian tents, 4 slepping bags, 4 rucksack, a camping pots set, a small camping stove, some spaghetti packages and several tomato sauce tins, because of the car so old and overloaded, we traveled slowly enough that everyone overtook us!
Our road trip included several stop-overs, the first one was in Innsbruck, a nice town in the Tyrol region of Austria, yet the city that stole my heart for good in Austria was Salzburg.
As soon as we arrived, we could feel a sort of excitement in the air, all people in town were going to a free big concert in the main square of Salzburg, a lot of them were dressed up with fantastic typical Tyrolean outfits, many were drinking beer and singing on the streets. I must confess that we had a lot of fun that night! the next day, after recovering from the wild night, we were back on the road again. Next stop would be the border with the Czechoslovakia.
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Memories of an unforgettable journey Part 1
The first travel experience is like the first kiss, you will never forget it!
1/ Travel can be used as a noun, but not usually as a substitute for "journey" or "voyage". Either of those words could be used, but in this case I've just converted it to an adjective by adding "experience".
2/ "The" is correct, but "your" would be more common in a sentence like this.
It was the summer of 1986, right after the my graduation from my School of Nursing the school of nursing, when my fiancé and I, with a couple of friends of ours, set off for our first big adventure in the world.
1/ It's true that "the" is used to refer to one specific thing, and that in this case it was your graduation. However you would never hear it used that way when referring to your own graduation. "The graduation of my sister", yes. However when you are talking about yourself, it would be "my graduation".
2/ School of Nursing would only be capitalised if you were talking about a specific named school. In this case it's specific (the one that you attended), but not named.
3/ English likes to be contrary sometimes; in this case "the" in front of "school" can be used to refer to a school generally. However "a" would also work in that spot.
I don't remenber remember who was the planner, but I can't forget the excitiment excitement before our departure.
Our budget was really low, around 600,000 lire per person (around 300 euros now) for two weeks on a road trip across Europe.
In all versions of English, a comma (virgola) is used as the thousands separator.
We loaded the Citroën 2 CV, owened owned by our friends, with two Canadian tents, 4 slepping sleeping bags, 4 rucksacks, a camping pots set, a small camping stove, some spaghetti packages and several tomato sauce tins.
1/ There were 4 rucksacks, so that has to be plural.
2/ The next one is a bit more debatable. When you write it that way "camping pot" is used to describe what kind of a set it is. I would usually put that in the singular, since it's acting as an adjective. On the other hand "a set of camping pots" is different, because the pots become the noun.
3/ I know you're keen to continue your story, but the next bit really does belong in a new sentence.
"because of the car" is missing the verb. It's because the car was (era) those things that you were overtaken.
Our road trip included several stop-overs, the first one of which was in Innsbruck, a nice town in the Tyrol region of Austria, yet the city that stole my heart for good in Austria was Salzburg.
"The first one" would be fine if it was in a new sentence, but in this case it is referring to one of the stop-overs that you mentioned at the start of the sentence. "Of which" in this case serves a similar role to "ne" in Italian here.
As soon as we arrived, we could feel a sort of excitement in the air, all of the people in town were going to a free big concert in the main square of Salzburg. A lot of them were dressed up with in fantastic typical Tyrolean outfits, many were drinking beer and singing on the streets.
1/ You dress up in an outfit, but that may involve dressing with specific accessories.
2/ In English it's more common to say "in" the street than "on" it, though you could get away with either. If it was something like a park or a plaza, though, you'd never use "on".
I must confess that we had a lot of fun that night! The next day, after recovering from the wild night, we were back on the road again. The next stop would be the border with the Czechoslovakia.
Unlike in Italian, "The" is not used in front of many country names when they're written in English. It usually only applies when the country name is a plural noun, like The United States, The Philippines, or a few other cases like The United Kingdom.
This is very well structured; overall the errors were minor compared to the overall writing style and vocabulary.
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