As in other places, in Italy things don’t always go the way they should. Empty holiday homes can be prime targets for burgers, who often systematically work their way through an area in a couple of days before moving on, one step ahead of the police. 2 Italy discusses the problem in southern Marche, where over 120 burglaries took place in the summer.
There are around 1,000 travel strikes a year in Italy, which can cause the unsuspecting a real problem. Zoomata points outs that if the Italian Parliament is successful, Italians will have to go on a ‘virtual’ strike at some point in the future in order to guarantee basic public services.
Web scaping, or the systematic stealing of someone’s web content, is a nasty business. Italian Food Forever had a shocking time this week when the content of her website was plagiarised. Happily, she successfully had the rogue website taken down.
Food is always an important topic in Italy. Wanted in Rome news reports the outrage of parents and politicians to the introduction of a Lent menu in Rome’s schools. Meantime, the children are denied meat in their school meals until 5 April.
Whilst Genoa’s environmental department is busy turning off Genoa’s lights, Ciao Amalfi- points out that Amalfi still has its Christmas lights on, and hints at rumours of it being used as a film set. But presumably, not a movie about the environment.
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