Is there really any reason for saving Altialia

Living in Italy I usually defend italy and its things if anybody says something bad about it. F.ex. when my dad said that I should not use Alitalia because they cancel their flights all the time. I defended them and told him that they not worse than anybody else.

At least that was my line untill this morning when I recieved this email:


Gentile cliente,
Alitalia informa che il volo AZXXXX del 24DEC08 , da FCO a XXX, con partenza alle ore XXXX, è stato cancellato.

Per ulteriori informazioni contatti cortesemente il nostro call center al numero 06 2222.

Dear customer,
Alitalia informs that the flight AZXXXXon 24DEC08 , departing from FCO at XXXX to XXX, has been cancelled.

For further information , please contact our call center at +39 06 2222.


This call center has now had us on hold for an hour. Shame on you Alitalia, cancel a plane 5 days before departure, leaving no reason and a phone number that doesnt go anywere...

we are going drown

A little bit to the right of the tree, and 3-4 meters underwater, is where I had a nice pizza this summer, during the festival season of Rome.



From another angle:



It seems that some god has decided to wash away Rome, the pitures is from this morning, and its going to continue raising.

On a positive note, the planned strike has been partly cancelled, people are still angry about Berlusconis way of handling the economics during the crisis, but I guess they agree with our mayor that it is vital to have the public transportation is running. So this morning I arrived to the metro showing this nice information:



- Strike Cancelled -
(also written in english)

The big question now remains whether there will be streets to drive on, or empty tunnels to drive in. Currently they are talking about closing down the metro again, because of the water.

My colleagues says its my fault, because I was happy when it started raining.

Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.
~Aeschylus

Everybody talks about Denmark these days

Here in Italy, there has been allot of protests against Denmark, in mails being send around and on blogs (link), showing pictures of the terrible things that young people in Denmark are during.

Pictures are shown (with warnings about not scrolling down if there is children present) like the following. Which proofs the cruelty of the youth in Denmark.



That fact is that it is not Denmark but Færøerne, who does this massacre, however cruel it is, its not something that Denmark can do anything about, because animal protection is under the local state. The Danish minister of justice, have asked the local government to provide a statement (back in 2000), which can be seen here (link). Their response have been that there has been made allot of improvements in the killing and that it is approved by the international whaling commission.

I think its cruel and horrific the slaughter of these poor pilot whale (and not dolphins). And it should stop. But I think that most people who send emails around it, should also wonder how their steak, chicken or what ever is for dinner, has grown up, and how it has been slaughtered.

SubRoma

These days Rome is stormed by holiday goers, on romantic weekend shopping trips (how ever those two things can be combined). But for the northern people, trying to escape from the cold of winter, it might not be the best days to arrive to Rome, because it rains cats and dogs (as the English saying goes). It is so bad that we practically woke up to a Rome that looked like Venezia, with rivers as streets.


(see more pictures here)

Honestly I think it finally feels a bit like autumn has finally arrived, now we only need a bit of subzero temperature and a bit of snow so Christmas can finally arrive.

A day of mourning

Yesterday the police confiscate 80 tons of the king cheese Parmigiano ( in english Parmesan cheese) after making hygienic test visit.

They found excrements from mice and rats, and some dead animals (the course of dead was not disclosed)



Still I could help wondering if they could have given me some, instead of destroying it.

Story is borrowed from Corriere della sera
Picture is borrowed from www.ogigia.com