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The complex known as San Marco http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marco,_Florence is one of my favourite Florence places. Beautiful frescos by Fra Angelico are what draw me, (but watch out for hordes of large Americans crushing into Savonarola's small cell). Some quite important art in the museum here too. It gets 5 stars on trip advisor - probably all the US visitors!

You would need to get English switch plates which fit the standard Italian boxes, and the cover plates would have to be appropriate for the placca on the Italian box. Italian electiricains tend to want to get more wires through a box, so they are normally deeper than UK boxes.  Here is a page with (surely!) an Italian light switch to meet any aesthetic demands.  http://www.archiexpo.it/fabbricante-architettura-design/interruttore-211...

Well - it doesn't matter that I'd probably make a complete dogs bollocks of the finance ministry job - I'd accept in a flash! An auto blu, who could estimate le buste, cheapo pranzi - the salary would just be a perk. Bit like a Gordon Brown job description! This is why the level of debate (UK and IT) is so completely puerile. Unless the electorate gets intelligent and engaged it will ever be so. 

I tend to agree with the difficulties of laurel - it can be kept at less than 2m, but it does look poor if attacked with a hedgetrimmer. Bay (laurus nobilis) is slightly less vigorous and because the leaves are smaller it is okay with a hedgetrimmer, it is also more drought resistant. Another similar hedging plant used a lot in Italy is photinia. I'd tend to avoid Yew on a boundary if animals could eat it, it is quite poisonous to sheep, horses and cows. Bay is not quite as hardy as laurel, I don't know how cold it gets in your area of Piemonte. What have your neighbours got on their boundaries? It's always worth looking to see what does well in your immediate vicinity.

Jeez, even the bots are uneducated. You wna't a lawer fro imigrattion? Didn't think so. However, consider the plight of a genuine Nigerian diplomat trying to rent a Tuscan Villa for a month in summer! Ain't going to happen.

I had rather thought we might oblige the old Kernel, but I think the snap of us mud wrestling makes your bum look big Esme, and the well lit one gives perhaps undue prominence to that extraordinarily well trained Alsation (now known as the German Shepherd, wink wink, Angela!) which David Bailey insisted got into the bed with us both. (Please read that again and count bodies!) To help myself sleep, I draft a mini blog outlining as many Italian political parties as I can think of, naming thier respective spokespersons, but when I wake up and start to type it everything has changed. Never fear, I will post something up-to-date, (at the latest before polling results are banned). 

You could have a certificato di prova for just about anything, from your fire extinguishers upwards. Reading between your very few lines maybe this certificato relates to the quality of some concrete which has been poured. If that is the case, then yes, you probably also need a collaudo statico (an engineer's structural report/design on the structure into which this concrete has been poured.) But, given the information supplied, I - like anybody else who dared to reply - would be only guessing!

And to you, Geotherm

Okay, I owe it to my Italymag followers to comment on the latest - though it changes minute by minute - but assuredly Monti isn't off the radar right now.  IMO what Monti is trying to do is make irrelevant the reforme elettorale by positing something much more radical. That's why he is an enormous danger to Bersani et al. Funnily enough (truly, one does have to laugh) Berlusconi came up with a similar idea to split political allegiance fron parties toward ideological interest groups (for different reasons). Anyway - one dreams that this could be exciting stuff - but, This is Italy - so it won't be: whoever promotes change. How deluded am I to post this late on Chrismtas night! More to follow whenever there is anything more concrete or comprehensible to say.

This is covered in the Codice della strada, articles 63 and 165.  You can tow a broken down car with another car on minor roads (not on a motorway or principal extra-urban routes) using a solid (or cable) link. The towed car has to have its hazard lights flashing or otherwise be identified as odd by using the warnng triangle. Both drivers must have licences. The mass of the towed car must be within the limits written in the circulation document (libretto). I'm not certain whether the following statement comes from the CdS, or if it was added to the information I sourced (which was from the police). This insists that the towing car is fitted with a tow hitch (if it is an Italian reg car this will be written into the libretto together with the max towing weight). So you can't just use a length of rope tied to the bumper!