Life in the Living Museum
Storms have been battering Italy from north to south, east to west causing destruction and loss of life. The rain also filled a river with rubbish as this video shows.A rather unpleasant consequence of the latest rains to hit southern Italy's regions has been this disgusting river of rubbish … [Read more...]
A while back, a while before the election of Berlusconi into power, Italy, and Naples in particular, came to the attention of the world for all the wrong reasons. It was a nasty situation, possibly provoked by the mafia, which left Naples full of festering piles of garbage. Well, the trash, alas, … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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