As August comes to an end, many are forced to face the second-worst thing about a vacation: packing for the return trip. The first worst thing is packing for the outbound trip. The suitcase is an odious modern invention. It…
Some people find summer boring. That’s true. Maybe nothing important is happening, the whole country is immersed in a strange calm, and people are more concerned with their tans than with committing major crimes. Can’t stand this boredom anymore? If…
Since Julius Caesar’s time, science has been unsuccessfully investigating why women wearing tiny bikinis need to set up a military tent in the middle of the beach to change out of their bathing suits. Anthropologists, always enthusiastic about people who…
One of the most common summertime activities is that of exasperating the kids. These days, children live 11 months of the year inside big city bubbles, locked up at home, surrounded by all the pleasures their hearts could desire, and…
The hot season is the best for practicing high-risk activities. And that includes organizing outdoor parties. Among all of them, the most popular is the barbecue, with the necessary permits from the authorities, the law, and the firefighters. An anonymous…
Mountaineering is a very healthy activity for all of my friends. I know many mountaineers and often, when I have time to spare, I love to pass by the hospital and say hello to them. They always tell me such…
The textile industry works within strange parameters. The price of women’s swimsuits increases proportionately as the amount of fabric used to make them is reduced, while the opposite is true of men’s, encouraging the presence of anxiously corseted groins on…
In the era of micro-machismo and the extinction of compliments, I want speak up in favor of the old summer heartthrob, an endangered species, harassed by governments, by NGOs, by gender ideologues, by friends of animals, by the Davos Club,…
Almost everything is broken in Italy, except the pizzas, which they serve you whole so that you can break them. I find it hard to write about the country responsible for both the boot and Tuscany, because my Mediterranean soul…
If you’re tired of tending your farm, you’re in luck: there are plenty of people in town willing to pay to break their own backs. It’s true that they are not very skilled in agricultural matters, but the same thing…