We had a storm here in Milan and it took the edge of the incredible heat. I was melting, as usual and even started to do my 'Rambo' thing of taking the waistband from my bathrobe and wrapping it round my forehead in an attempt to find some way of soaking up the sweat which literally pours from my … [Read more...]
A messy incident
June 29, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Last night, in the north of Italy, a group of heavily armed police SWAT team types invaded the house of a guy who had decided to shoot at all and sundry as they passed by. Result: 3 dead and nine injured. This guy, or so it turns out had debts of around 360,000 Euros and was worried about losing his … [Read more...]
Rape
June 28, 2005 By Leave a Comment
It's not nice and is probably one of the worst crimes anyone can commit, next to being a paedophile that is. However, whereas back in the UK stories about such crimes were quite common place, here in the living museum, such events seemed to be few and far between, or at least did not catch the … [Read more...]
Proud to announce…..
June 27, 2005 By Leave a Comment
.....that, finally, a real, and Milan based, Italian has left a comment on my blog. This is great - I really wanted some Italians to react in some way to my blatherings. This real Italian has a blog, here, and goes by the name of 'bread stick' - OK so he uses the Italian name which is 'grissino', … [Read more...]
Monday, Monday.
June 27, 2005 By Leave a Comment
I started the day by drifting on down to the company I had done some urgent translation work for and seeing as everything was OK, I wandered off to meet up with my other half for lunch, only it was a bit too early for us to go off when I arrived, so I decided to go for a little walk, with the vague … [Read more...]
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