The Italian daily, Il Corriere della Sera, ran a lovely little cartoon on its front page yesterday.But I can't publish it, because it was in the published edition, so a little description will have to suffice.Picture 1Berlusconi, dressed as a wizard, approaches a pile of … [Read more...]
Italy’s Trashy Trouble Worsens
May 7, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The out of control rubbish situation down in Naples, which has been smouldering away since 1994, has finally landed Italy in a spot of trouble.I first wrote about this troublesome issue in my Naples and Rubbish post back in May 2007, then I mentioned it once more in January this year in my Naples … [Read more...]
Cheesed Off
March 26, 2008 By Leave a Comment
The rubbish crisis which appears to have made Naples infamous the world over, has now been joined by a mozzarella crisis. A Buffalo Mozzarella crisis, to be more precise.As you may have seen from stories in the press the world over, this delicious cheese, one of Italy's more prized … [Read more...]
Registering Domain Names in Italy. Dot com or dot it?
March 9, 2008 By 4 Comments
Recently Carlos, after reading this post possibly, contacted me to ask whether Italian sites use the .com and .it domain names. This was an interesting question and oddly enough I had been looking at the Alexa statistics for Italy's top 100 Internet sites recently and I noticed that both .com and … [Read more...]
Chaos in Part of Milan this Morning
February 29, 2008 By Leave a Comment
When I got to the business school in the Fiera area of Milan this morning, at around 9, I found just about all the classrooms deserted. Oops, I've arrived far too early, I thought. I checked the time, and it was indeed around 9, on both my trusty mobiles.Very odd. I had noticed that the traffic … [Read more...]
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