Grazie! Altre tanto ๐
Grazie! Altre tanto ๐
It's the All Saints day after Halloween public holiday here in Italy today. Some Italians are taking the next two days off, as is yours truly who's off to Lumana in the Le Marche region for a few days. Good food and wines await! I hope the weather will be kind but it is November.
Rome is a buzz...but not for the right reasons: โExcruciatingโ hornet sting leaves Rome dinner party guest on crutches as plague spreads | The Guardian (Didn't notice any of the things when I was in Rome in early June, this year, thankfully)
Italy - Industry association Confindustria slashes 2024 growth forecast from 1.2% to 0.5% - ANSA.it
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The difficulty of learning the right lessons from the US
How is the US economy managing to power ahead of Europe? www.ft.com/content/e017...
Quite the chart here, on the US's tech dominance
Well I'm still here but haven't been posting much, have I? This is mainly down to BlueSky not having an inbuilt share to feature on Android. This feature is in the pipeline, I've been told. I'm more active on Mastodon - same user name. Sharing to Mastodon is easy. So now you know ๐
Italy - Petition for Minimum Wage gets half a million signatures www.ansa.it/english/news...
Italy - With nearly 7,000 crimes reported per 100,000 inhabitants, Milan is Italy's most crime ridden city (despite having 3 police forces and the army on the streets) - article in Italian
Italy - 63% of Milan's differentiated domestic trash is recycled. The remaining 37% is converted into energy. Little or no waste now ends up in landfills (article in Italian)
www.milanotoday.it/attualita/ri...
Italy - Battery technology in the crashed Venice bus made it less prone to catastrophic fires, experts say
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Italy's first hydrogen powered train shown off in Milan and will enter service towards the end of 2024. Others likely to follow. (article in Italian)
Italian authorities to conduct review into Venice crash after 21 people die when coach veers off overpass โ latest Europe updates
Look back at Giorgio Napolitano: learn the limits of dogma and how good leaders can change lives.
Sydney Sibilia is in my opinion #Italy's best contemporary film director. He makes eminently watchable movies which provide insight into how Italy functions, or rather, doesn't! Sibilia's most recent films is Mixed by Erry - enjoyable and based on a true story. Rose Island was another gem.
Nice 75km (47 mile) cycle ride to the north west of Milan, Italy I did today. Mainly flat and mainly off road thanks to Komoot route planning.
Italy - Former president Giorgio Napolitano dies, he was 98 and was first president to have been elected twice (article in Italian) - Ansa.it
Italy PM Meloni is worried she might meet the same end as Silvio Berlusconi who was basically kicked out after pressure from abroad over fears he was going to crash Europe's economy - article in Italian on Dagospia
PM Giorgia Meloni: I wonโt allow Italy to become Europeโs refugee camp | The Guardian
Italy - Doing or playing sport is about to become a constitutional right (article in Italian)
After recent deaths, and comments from right wing politicians on how dangerous it is to cycle in the city, number of cyclists in Milan, Italy down by 20% - article in Italian www.bikeitalia.it/2023/09/18/m...
@Reuters: No major damage reported from 4.8 magnitude earthquake near Florence https://t.co/FXvotOlhk3 https://t.co/LZbqrkisEL