Gold fever.

Nope, sorry, gold has not been found in Milan, so please don't rush here.  However, gold is certainly on the streets.  Gold seems to be the in-colour for  quite a few Milanese women at the moment.  There are gold coloured handbags, shoes, belts, and tops.  Should you wish to demonstrate the … [Read more...]

Playing with my site

A short time ago I had my main site englishisin.com moved over to a swish new server.  But, despite the new server, it seemed to load even more slowly than before.  This evening I have carried out a few modifications to the Joomla! backend in the hope of speeding it up a bit.  If you have spare … [Read more...]

The Dangerous Heart of Italy

Milan Accident

Italy can be quite a dangerous place.  In fact there are various ways in which people can come to an untimely end in this country.  In order of lethality these are driving, working, and stepping on toes. Driving Sorry, driving, is a little misleading, because pedestrians are also at risk from … [Read more...]

Another squirmy pavement day

Yet another sweltering day in Milan. I had to use the underground too, which is not good at the moment. The metro is one big oven at the moment, and you don't travel so much as cook. Not a wonderful experience, I can tell you.As far as I can tell, only about one train on the red line is air … [Read more...]

Some interesting statistics.

Around 497 comments left since I went Wordpress.  Almost 11,000 spamments left.  Mad or what? … [Read more...]