The giant awakes

Milan, according to the telly news, has filled up with inhabitants all back from their summer hols, only there is not much traffic around and there are still plenty of vacant parking spaces and many shops are still shut up tight. So the news is wrong.

My guess is that people will drift back this week and everything will be good and busy from the beginning of next week.

The horses mouth has spoken.

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About Alex Roe

Alex Roe is from the UK, but has lived and worked in Milan, Italy for more than a decade. He founded Italy Chronicles in 2005 as Blog from Italy. Alex is a Business Insider Europe contributor.

When not working on Italy Chronicles, Alex teaches English at a business school in Milan, translates, writes articles for other web sites and runs training courses.

Alex tweets news and information about Italy to his 7400+ Twitter followers via @newsfromitaly.