Saturday, January 20, 2007

Another Saturday in Genoa

If you think gas in the US is expensive, check this out. That price in Euros is for a liter of gas. It works out to about $5.50 per gallon.



Which is why you see cars like this - an old-school Mini (which is about half the size of the new ones).


And their are even smaller cars, such as this old Fiat.


Here is one of the numerous retaining walls what hold much of the city up. Many of the walls are the remains of old fortifications.



Apparently Italians truckers were protesting something today. An endless line of trucks filled the Via XX Septembre today, and all blared their horns for hours. Italians love to strike or protest. You see one about every other day. Apparently that 6.5-hour or so work day (and average of 8 weeks of vacation time per year) is just too much to handle.



2 comments:

Tracy said...

Is that a dalmation sticker on the side of the door?

Keith said...

R, That looks like the car from the Simpson's where Nelson makes fun of the guy for being too tall and he makes Nelson walk down the street with his pants down so everyone can go Ha-Ha. Try not to eat too much, your like as big as a car already!