It’s a Teca Thing
Nope, ‘teca’ has got nothing to do with technology, in case you were wondering. ‘teca’ is a suffix using in Italian to denote a place which specializes in something or other.
Is Press Freedom about to be Limited in Italy?
Not too long ago, in fact just after Berlusconi won the elections, I spoke to a journalist who works for a major Italian newspaper, and this journalist told me that he and many of his colleagues were worrying about clamp downs on press freedom in Italy. Well, it’s looking as though this hack’s fears were […]
Immersion Heaters in Italy
If you are English, you will know that an immersion heater is that dome topped tank that often lives in an airing cupboard. Well, in Italy airing cupboards do not seem to exist for a start, and the Italian equivalent of an immersion heater is the ‘scalda bagno’ (or ‘boiler’, I think), which is generally […]
Registering Domain Names in Italy. Dot com or dot it?
Recently Carlos, after reading this post possibly, contacted me to ask whether Italian sites use the .com and .it domain names. This was an interesting question and oddly enough I had been looking at the Alexa statistics for Italy’s top 100 Internet sites recently and I noticed that both .com and .it domains are used […]
Italian Paragraphs
I don’t know if others have noticed this, and I imagine they have, but many Italian writers construct some of the longest paragraphs I have ever seen. These paragraphs, which are seemingly never ending walls of text, tend to put me off reading Italian newspapers and books.
Turning Round La Brutta Figura
Italy is a very image conscious country – just wander down any Italian street and you will see beautiful shops and elegantly dressed passers by. The places and people are examples of ‘la bella figura’ – which means ‘creating the right impression’. The opposite of the ‘bella’ version is ‘la brutta figura’, which is similar […]
An Interesting Italian Word: Furbo
I suspect that Gege’ Bau, who commented on one of my posts, may know something about the meaning of the Italian word ‘furbo’.
Rom or Romanian?
As I wrote a few days back, Italy has taken measures to extradite European Union citizens who have been involved in criminal activities here. The Italian law enforcement spotlight has been shining heavily on those from Romania, and the police have been rounding up Romanians by the dozen in preparation for having them sent back […]
Free Wi-Fi in Parco Sempione, Milan!
Yes, a free wifi service in Milan, Italy now exists and, most probably, works. If you manage to make it to the end of this post about my wifi exploits, then you will find a link to a list of free wifi hotspots in Milan.