Vespa Museum in Pontedera, Italy
Love or loathe them, you still have to admit that the Vespa scooter is about as Italian as pasta.
Love or loathe them, you still have to admit that the Vespa scooter is about as Italian as pasta.
An ill wind is blowing from the direction of the Italian post office service, and said bad wind emanates from a quietly brewing storm.
This post is not going to a declaration of my undying love for Italy. No, instead it’s going to be about a problem situation which crops up all too regularly in the news here – that of public tender related corruption and fraud.
Reading Roberto Saviano’s book Gomorrah, which is an expose of the Camorra mafia which operates from Naples and its surrounding area, may provide some with an insight into the problems which beset modern day Italy.
With Italy’s complex employment laws and fiddly bureaucracy setting up a restaurant and making it successful appears to be no easy task.
A recent phone call from Russia and a comment, indicate that those from outside Italy are hunting unlocked Apple iPhone 3g phones in Italy.
To help such people a little, this brief post contains links to Italian Apple iPhone stockists using Vodafone Italy’s store search system, and instructions on how to use it.
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.
In this post, which Google has led you to, I imagine, I’ll show you which on-line and off-line Italian stores have unlocked iPhones up for grabs, and just what iPhone availability in Italy is like.
If you are coming to Italy on your holidays this summer, then watch your speed, otherwise you will end up on camera, and a fine will drop through your letterbox at some time in the future.
To help those of you watch your speed, here are some photographs of some of the types of speed camera to be found littered around Italy.