You have probably heard me comment about how crazy it is to drive in Italy. This photo demonstrates how to safely cross the street here.

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The last couple days have been insane. I am quite literally juggling three sites. Wednesday was supposed to be a nice leisurely drive from Foggia up to Lodi where I would work a couple hours at Tavazzano and then have a nice dinner and enjoy beers with Colin, E.N. and the rest of the gang. It turns out Candela did not want to let me go and wanted ( Read more... )

Today I discovered how the pay parking system works in downtown Foggia. I had previously noticed the signs indicating pay parking from 9am to noon and 13h30 to 20h00, excluding Sundays. I thought it odd that street parking would have such a long lunchtime exemption ( Read more... )

My weekend in Rome was largely successful. Even though it is small, I did manage to find the Vatican. I had a good wander around the Basilica but I did not get into the Vatican Museums as they were closed ( Read more... )

It has taken me three months but I finally managed to sort through the photos I took when I was in Florence. They are all nicely loaded in to Fotki, sorted spliced and commented. I have been to Florence twice this summer. The pictures were all taken from my first trip in June with Bogdan and Tania. I went again at the start of August with Larry.

( Duomo, Giardino Boboli and too many pictures of the Madonna and Child )

tamaraland's Plan A was not working out so she decided on Plan B - catching a train to Lodi. Saturday we went on a road trip to Monaco for lunch.

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It took a few tries but I finally got a ticket booked to Bilbao. I leave on the 7th and I get back on the 10th. I ended up spending the 5 euros on a service fee but Oh well. Now I just need to convince a tall Scotsman to join us ( Read more... )

Today I found out that I am being assigned to 3 different jobs. I am still wrapping up reports here at Tavazzano near Milano. Civitavecchia, on the coast near Rome is in a schedule crunch. The usual routine is that civil construction is late so mechanical and electrical construction are late. In this case a month or two late. But commissioning is ( Read more... )

I am wanting to go to Bilbao the weekend of the 7-10th of October. Alitalia is conspiring against this.
A quick flight search turns up Alitalia with a direct flight from Malpensa to Bilbao. The cost is only €129 tax in. I try to book it. I get as far as the page to enter my credit card information and click the button to buy.
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I have been wanting to get an entry in my log about Italian TV for a while now. In another thread far_gone wrote "After the novelty of bikini-clad girls assisting in *every* program wears off, there's not much to watch."

It sums up Italian TV perfectly.