Thus, the football season is finally over and I finally find time time to write something for the heading "Italian for Beginners" to, after all, the holidays are just around the corner. Today it's about moving, so everything that I have left out in "Driving in Italy". That is, I have not missed so much, so the Italians continue to drive the car out at any time of day, any distance, anywhere. Sometimes he takes the Vespa, so you get even in the densest urban Romans progressing and can park anywhere. The important thing is that driving the Italians, since there are one, what is even more objectionable to him than without "leaving telefonino" the house on foot to go somewhere. If he does not. Do not go. Feet to play football, or - in female specimens - for there to admire, not to bridge distances. None distances.

In countless months of painstaking field research in my local pub I could see, for example, that 10 out of 10 Italians prefer to put their car in the yard, instead of using one of the two large parking spaces - one directly opposite, and another about 100 m (that felt 100 km) up the mountain. And so you can watch the nightly spectacle of guests who drop by for an aperitif, a caffè or sometimes a whole dinner, piled her vehicle in the courtyard. The access is narrow and lies in a completely confusing 180-degree turn, you can not rotate and hold to exit the premises must be courageous in the trunk of the traffic flow. And because only one of the last one can be to provide each departure of a guest for complicated maneuvers - once all the cars down to the court and then they are neatly arranged in again. Usually several times in the evening. And with an average metal loss per week, the strategically prima projecting into the driveway potted flowers are not seen when reversing namely. From time to time must be noted also a time that the gap before the door is not the last parking lot, but needed to go in - usually such a person then goes home. What should he do? No Parking!

Well, I would like hell to put me in a way that I would get up four times nightly from the table to play with other license holders Car Tetris, but I'm no Italian. And do not go on foot, legs, they only have to serve gas, clutch and brake. German tourists can be seen that is even from 300 feet away, and it took a long time before white skin with red head, holding hands or the typical poplin uniforms (where one actually buys Touri clothing? Is there as special trade? Can make): Tourists are they approaching the premises on foot! For this purpose they use the road because sidewalks in Italy there is not even logically. Pavements, sidewalks, curbs - anything like that. It is not a third world country! At most times in the city center in front of a bar or tobacco shop, but that's Vespa parking. Who is so mad to want to go on their own feet to the sight of his confidence, has this to nestle close to the walls of houses and duck when needed in doorways or driveways to. These are harvested often pitying looks, finally, we have so obviously lost the license and is now instructed to move around in this incredibly humiliating way.

This is - there must be exceptions, yes - was carried out on the river walks. Please make sure that it is well maintained and there is no stroll intends to proceed from a certain point A to a certain point B! Man gets dressed and walks nicely emphasizes slowly, like awakening with an ice cream in hand, and therefore, under no circumstances, the impression you would want to go somewhere. For that would mean either translated into Italian, yes, that one can afford a car, or has his license just borrowed the local police, both are of course unacceptable. In addition to the waterfront so it goes: You drive the 100 meters to the bar, you drive the children to the quarter-mile to school, you go to Subway, you go to the beach, Zigarettenholen, to shop, to the playground behind the house and recently, the McDonald's Drive-In. And consequently there is just no sidewalks, respect her views on it.

No matter how exorbitantly high gasoline prices, not an economic crisis could wean the Italian motorized transportation. If need be just a replacement car as the Fiat 500 serve, it only needs to roll by itself and make noise. Italians prefer to go sit at home and eating the putty from the window to come as the idea of shopping on foot. And who can blame him? Driving a car fueled the economy, it closes easily in continuous contact can jam, listening to loud music and phone calls without interruption and the car is now the only place where you can "smoke indoors. And of course, plays a role that all post-war generations were conceived in a car (which is why the average Italian weighs less and is smaller than the German, that is) applied Darwinism: the Italians in the car feels so comfortable, like other peoples in the bed! Above all, it shows that you have a car. None have is that is just unthinkable, like prowl through the area without telephone: asocial, absurd and unacceptable. If they travel by car anyway so not in its next Italy vacation, they take a rental car. Or put your way around a good excuse. Because believe me, there are 3 conversations that they lead in Italy do not want: "I have no TV," "I have no cell phone" and "I have no car."

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