Zero Tollerance in Italy

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Road accidents in Italy lead to more deaths than in any other European country, according to recent reports in Italian newspapers.Recently released figures from 2006 regarding Great Britain (3,297), France (4,709), Germany (5,091) and Italy (5,669), clearly put Italy at the top of this macabre … [Read more...]

Extrovertly Private

Italy boasts, if that is the right word, long and complex privacy laws, which are supposed to protect its extrovert citizens from excessive prying.Once, back in 2006, and out of perverse curiosity, I tried to read Italy's long and complex privacy laws.The other day, the subject came up once more … [Read more...]

Judith’s Judgement

Pasta al Limone con Gamberetti

First of all, I've been itching to tell you that next Friday I'll be posting details of Blog from Italy's first recipe contest.As a little incentive, there will also be prizes in the form of three one year subscriptions which have been kindly offered by the US version of highly regarded and … [Read more...]

Who was Marco Fabrizio?

Apparently, Marco Fabrizio was an Italian singer-song writer from Genoa.  Apart from that, not much is known about this mysterious Italian artist.According to his biggest fan, two of his songs were: 'Il Mio Cuore d'Argento' - 'My Silver Heart', and 'Il Mio Palloncino Blu' - 'My Blue Balloon'.  … [Read more...]

Free Camping in Italy

The incidents concerning attacks on German and Dutch tourists in Italy are sweeping the world, and these appalling happenings have been handled rather insensitively by the Italian authorities, as a read of the post on Beppe Grillo's blog will tell you.However, something else that is perturbing is … [Read more...]