Life in the Living Museum
Fewer and fewer people are choosing Italy as a vacation destination according to a recent article in a Sunday edition of Italian daily Corriere Della Sera.Back in the 70s, Italy was the destination of choice for many of the world's tourists. No longer though, Italy has now slipped to fifth … [Read more...]
Things are boiling away over in the comments on my post on Speeding and other traffic fines in Italy as a result of yet more motorists being caught out by the Pisa ZTL honey trap.The Guardian online has also written about this issue, and in response to an email I and others sent the newspaper, is … [Read more...]
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...]
No, not literally! ATAC is the Roman equivalent of Milan's public transport company - ATM. Like ATM, whose site I talked about in my 'A useful site, almost - ATM Milan' post, ATAC also has a site which allows you to calculate routes around Italy's capital.Despite my slightly disparaging … [Read more...]
It was supposed to have been a shop window to Italy, a tourism web portal par excellence, but it has turned out to be a 7 million Euro white elephant. If you try to visit, www.italia.it, you won't see too much. All I've been getting is server timeouts. Brutta figura time. UPDATED July … [Read more...]
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