Admit it, you thought the Italian national sport was football, didn't you? Well, you are wrong. The actual Italian national sport is tax evasion.Around 270 billion Euros never get declared. (Although, if this sum is not declared, how they can know it is 270 billion Euros is a bit of a … [Read more...]
A photo
June 12, 2007 By 1 Comment
I took this the same day as I got told not to take photos of a door:It's part of a sculpture located near the Strehler theatre here in Milan. I quite like the reflection of the people I managed to place in the bottom right hand corner. The photo has not been cropped. I just adjusted the white … [Read more...]
The photo I should not have taken!!
June 12, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Whilst wandering around looking for photo opportunities the other day, I had a look at this entrance which I had noted before:I thought it had a little photographic potential and so I took a (not great) snap - the one above. I was going to take a few more shots when I was approached by a young … [Read more...]
One less fine, in Milan, possibly.
June 8, 2007 By Leave a Comment
If you have ever visited Milan by car and actually managed to find a parking space, you may have returned to your vehicle the next morning to find it parked in a now all but deserted street and you may have found a nice little fine stuck under your wiper blade. Well, somehow, you may have been … [Read more...]
Late night
June 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I got to bed a 2am last night. Good party? What party? I was moving my main website - Englishisin.com over to a new server so I can start to experiment with a live Moodle installation. Have you ever moved a website? No? Well, it can be a fiddly process, especially when there is a database … [Read more...]
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