Italian Culture: Italians, the Good and Not So Good
What I love about Italians and what I don’t like about Italians.
How to Deal with Italy’s Police Checkpoints
If you’ve ever been to Italy, you may well have come across police checkpoints. They can be set up anywhere, at any time, and without any warning. These roadside checkpoints are usually manned by submachine gun toting cops sporting bullet proof jackets. They can be rather intimidating. Today, a 17 year old youth was shot […]
Travel Warning – Driving in Italy and Paying for Fuel by Credit Card
Beware when filling up your car at a service station in Italy and paying by credit card. In Milan there has been a rash of credit card skimming operations targeting service stations, and it is likely that other areas of Italy may be affected too.
How To Make A Claim Against a Wild Boar in Italy
Yes, while it may be somewhat difficult to believe, the huge, black and grouchy wild boars which inhabit Italy can sometimes be made to pay. Indeed, in Italy compensation for wild boar induced damage to cars maysometimes be successfully claimed.
How to Make Restricted Traffic Areas Fairer.
Italy has many cities in which ZTLs exist. These Zone Traffico Limitato areas are designed to prevent thousands of cars clogging up Italy’s city centres, and to help reduce pollution levels.
Milan’s Ecopass is back from its Vacation
As Milan crawls slowly back to life after the summer recess, its Ecopass traffic congestion charge comes back on-line.
Speed Cameras in Italy
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.
Traffic fines
Back in September 2006 I wrote a post about how to settle those pesky speeding/traffic fines you may end up with either during or after a stay in Italy. I did not imagine that my little post would end up being viewed more than 2500 times and commented on around 100 times, but it has, […]
Speeding fines in Italy, again, and Pisa…
It’s official, the article in the Telegraph I read while I was in the UK would seem to indicate that Euro traffic fines will shortly be with us. The same article is available on-line here. Although this change comes into effect in March 2007, as some who have read this blog will have noticed, the […]