So, the football season is finally over and I finally find time time to get back something for the category " Italian for Beginners to write, "after all the summer holidays are just around the corner. Today is about moving, everything that is what I read in " Driving in Italy have left out. " That is, I do not have omitted so much of the Italians continue to drive even with the car, back at any time, any distance, anywhere. Sometimes he takes the Vespa, so you get even in the densest urban traffic and parking Romans progress everywhere they can. But it is important that the Italians driving, because there are only one thing he is still objectionable, as not being 'telefonino "to leave the house to walk somewhere. Does not make it. Do not go. Feet are the football games, or - in female specimens - to admire here, not for distances. None of distances.

In countless months of arduous field work in my local pub I could observe, for example, that 10 out of 10 Italians prefer to put their vehicle into the yard, instead of using one of the two spacious parking lots - one directly opposite, a further 100 m (that feels like 100 km) up the mountain. And so you can watch the nightly spectacle as guests piled on an aperitif, a coffee or even drop by for a whole dinner times, their vehicle in the courtyard. The access is narrow and lies in a completely confusing 180-degree turn, you can not turn and exit the premises must be kept in the trunk of the brave the traffic flow. And because only one of the last may be, takes permanent departure of a guest for complicated maneuvers - once all the cars have to get off the farm and then assigns you neatly back. Usually several times in the evening. And with an average fender bender a week, the great strategic projects into the driveway planters are not visible during reversing ie. From time to time one must also be pointed out that the gap at the front door is not the last parking lot, but needed to go inside - usually someone like that then drives home. What should he do? No parking!

Well, I'd do the devil to make me so that I would get up from the table four times nightly to play with other license holders car-Tetris, but I'm also not Italian. And do not go on foot, legs, they only have to serve at the accelerator, clutch and brake. German tourists can be seen after only from 300 meters away, and indeed long before white skin with red head, holding hands, or the typical poplin uniforms (Where to buy really tourist-clothes there's as specialty shops?) Can account for: Tourists are those who approach the local walking! For this purpose they use the road because there are sidewalks in Italy so, consequently, no. Pavements, sidewalks, curbs - anything like that. It's not a third world country! At most times in the inner city from a bar or tobacco shop, but that's Vespa parking. Who is so crazy to want to go on her own attraction to his confidence, has this to nestle close to the walls of buildings and duck when needed in doorways or driveways. These harvests are frequently pitiful looks, finally, one has so obviously lost the license and is now dependent on getting around this incredibly humiliating way.

This is - yes, there must be exceptions - performed on the boardwalks. This must be ensured that they are well maintained and you are strolling in no way intends to reach a certain point A to point B is given! It runs on pretty stressed and progresses slowly, therefore, like to inspire with an ice cream in hand and therefore under no circumstances will the impression you would want to go somewhere. Because that would mean translated into Italian so that either can not afford a car, or has borrowed his driving straight to the local police authorities, both are of course unacceptable. Except on the promenade you go thus: You take the 100 m to the bar, one takes the kids to the quarter mile to school, you go to the subway, you go to the beach, cigarette Get to go shopping, to the playground behind the house and more recently to the McDonald's Drive-In. And consequently, there are also no sidewalks, respect them on it once.

Not even the exorbitantly high price of gasoline, not an economic crisis could wean the Italians are the motorized transport. Not to be just one car like the Fiat 500 spare serve, it must roll only by itself and make a noise. Rather sit at home and the Italians eat the putty from the window frame, but to come up with the idea to go shopping on foot. And who can blame him? Driving a car fueled the economy, it includes the permanent retaining contacts can easily hear loud music and uninterrupted telephone calls and the car is now the only place where you can "inside" to smoke. And of course, plays a role that all postwar generations were conceived in the car (hence the average Italian also weighs less and is smaller than the German, which is applied Darwinism): the Italians feel the car as well as other peoples in bed! Above all, it shows that you have a car. Namely, to have none is as unthinkable as to roam through the area without a telephone: anti-social, absurd, unacceptable. If they travel by car anyway so not in their next holiday in Italy, they take a car. Or they lie down for thyself a good excuse. For, believe me, there are three conversations they do not want to lead in Italy: "I have no TV," "I have no cell phone" and "I have no car."

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