Archive for January, 2009

Italy’s Finance Police January 28, 2009 No Comments

Italy seems to have 3 types of police, military, municipal and finance police. I have never seen a Finance policeman before coming to Italy. They have their own fancy uniform and their own fancy cars.
According to our Tuscan wine/cooking tour guide the finance police have the special role of making sure businesses are issuing receipts [...]

Economy/ Real Estate in Florence, Italy January 19, 2009 No Comments

I have now spent almost a month based in Florence, Italy and it seems that the locals here are suffering the same problems with the economy as Australians.
But even though they are technically “in recession” (along with most EU countries – in particular Germany and Spain who are really taking a hit according to the [...]