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So, the football season is finally over and at last I find time once again something for the heading " Italian for beginners to write, "Finally, even the summer holidays are just around the corner. Today it is about getting around, everything that is what I read in " Driving in Italy have left out. " That is, left out I do not have so much, the Italians continued to drive even with the car, out at any time, any distance, anywhere. Sometimes he takes the Vespa, so you get even in the densest urban Romans ahead and park anywhere they can. But it is important that the Italian goes, there is only one fact, which is objectionable to him than without "telefonino" to leave the house on foot to go somewhere. Does not make it. No way. Feet to play football, or - in female specimens - to admire there, no way to bridge distances. None distances.

In countless months of painstaking field research in my local pub I could see, for example, that 10 of 10 Italians prefer to put their car in the yard, instead of using one of the two large parking lots - one directly opposite one another about 100 m (that felt 100 km) up the mountain. And so every night you can watch the spectacle as guests piled on an appetizer, or a Caffè take a look a whole dinner, their vehicle in the courtyard. The access is narrow and lies in a completely chaotic 180-degree turn, you can not turn and exit the premises must be kept in the trunk brave the flow of traffic. And because only one of the last may be, shall each departure of a guest for complicated maneuvers - once all the cars down to the court and then assigns you to neatly again. Usually several times in the evening. And with an average body damage per week, the strategically prima projecting into the garden flower boxes are not visible when reversing namely. From time to time one must also be pointed out that the gap before the door is not the last parking lot, but to go in need - usually such a person 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 am no Italian. And do not go on foot, legs, they only have to operate at gas, clutch and brake. German tourists can be seen after only from 300 meters distance, and long before white skin with red head, holding hands, or the typical poplin uniforms (where you buy really Touri clothing? There's as specialty stores do? Account): Tourists are approaching the restaurant on foot! For this purpose they use the road because sidewalks are in Italy so consequently none. 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 to duck in doorways or driveways as needed. This harvest is often compassionate eyes, eventually you have so obviously lost the license and can now rely on to get around this incredibly humiliating way.

This will - there must be exceptions, yes - carried out on the promenades. This must be ensured that they are well maintained and there is no stroll intends to reach a certain point A to a certain point B! You change pretty and walks slowly stressed, therefore, like awakening with an ice cream in hand, and therefore, under no circumstances, the impression you would want anywhere. For that would surely mean either translated into Italian, that you can not afford a car, or has borrowed his driving straight to the local police, both are of course unacceptable. Save on the waterfront so you go: It runs the 100 meters to the bar, you drive the children to school half a kilometer, you ride the subway, you drive to the beach, Zigarettenholen, to shop, to the playground behind the house and recently to Mc Donald's Drive-In. And consequently there are also no sidewalks, make them on it once.

No matter how exorbitantly high gasoline prices, not an economic crisis could wean the Italian motorized transportation. If need be just a replacement car like the Fiat 500 serve, it must roll only by themselves and make a noise. Dear sits the Italians at home and eat the putty from the window than to have the idea to go shopping on foot. And who can blame him? Driving a car fueled the economy, it closes in continuous contacts can easily jam, listen to loud music and phone calls without being disturbed, 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 the car (hence the average Italians also weighs less and is smaller than the German, which 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 is in fact to have just as unthinkable as to roam through the area without telephone: asocial, absurd, unacceptable. If you would not anyway with the car in Italy for their next vacation, they take a rental car. Or put your way around a good excuse. Because believe me, there are three conversations that 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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