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La citta’ al contrario
October 12, 2015 // Posted in Pavia | No Comments
“Citta’ Giardino” is a nice district of Pavia, were both Beatrice’s nursery, and Lorenzo’s kindergarten are based. So every day we pass through it, by walking or by bike. And every-day we fight against car parked everywhere. Citta’ Giardino is in fact famous because cars are allowed to park where pedestrians are supposed to walk… Why???
Verde pubblico
June 16, 2015 // Posted in Pavia | No Comments
Pavia, in the last months, looks like an urban jungle. The new administration is not performing well, and although the public green is not the most important thing we care about, the situation about that is really disappointing. Let’s see what will happen in the future, but sacchibelli’s are a bit skeptic…
L’elefante di Napoleone
May 1, 2015 // Posted in animals, Pavia | No Comments
Today, walking through the center of our town, we met a big elephant… Obviously it was not alive, but it was stuffed. It is a gift from Napoleon to the University of Pavia, and after many years, it is now in exposition at the University. Lorenzo was really impressed. And I think that we will come back many times to meet it.
Barriere architettoniche
February 2, 2015 // Posted in Pavia | No Comments
Every morning, when we go to the nursery with Lorenzo in the stroller, we fight against car pollution, car parked everywhere, sidewalk too narrow. It should be a nice walk through a nice neighborhood of the town, but… And when cars don’t have any responsability, it is sad to note how hard is to defeat those architectural barriers… WIth a stroller, at the end, I’m able to walk on, but how can an handicapped with a wheelchair? Our taxes shouldn’t be used to fix similar issues? Who is responsible for that?
A proposito di mobilita’
January 13, 2015 // Posted in cars, Pavia | No Comments
We don’t post any picture about difficulties for pedestrians and bike riders here in Pavia but please do not think that the new town council is doing anything better than the previous one. Cars are always parked over side walks and there is no way to have Local Police fine it. But we still like to walk or to ride our bicycles.
Le ultime settimane di pioggia, con danni e disastri in tante parti d’Italia, hanno fatto gonfiare le acque del Ticino come non accadeva da parecchi anni (dal 2000). E stamattina, lento ma inesorabile, il Ticino e’ arrivato a lambire le bellissime case del Borgo basso. Uno spettacolo suggestivo, ma la speranza e’ che, almeno questa volta, i disagi siano limitati.
It was raining a lot in the last period, and there were floods everywhere, mainly in the North of Italy. And this morning, the “Ticino”, our river, slownly grew up to the level of the street in the “Borgo basso”, a suggestive point of the city, very close to the river. Let’s hope that damages and annoyances will be little enough for pepole living there…
A proposito di Tasi
October 13, 2014 // Posted in Pavia | No Comments
- Il Comune mette a disposizione un sito (http://www.amministrazionicomunali.net/imutasi/calcolo_imu_tasi.php?comune=pavia) abbastanza comodo per il calcolo. Ma chi non dovesse avere accesso a internet come deve procedere? Gia’ e’ dura pagare le tasse in un paese in cui i soldi delle tasse sembrano sperperati, poi c’e’ la complicazione dello sforzo necessario a ricordarsi di pagare tutti i balzelli e a calcolarne il valore giusto
- Il Comune di Pavia, bonta’ sua, ha deciso di concedere una detrazione (di 200 euro) per tutte le situazioni in cui la rendita catastale e’ al di sotto di una certa soglia; gesto encomiabile e comprensibile, a tutela delle classi piu’ deboli (nell’ipotesi che rendita catastale bassa corrisponda a immobile di piu’ bassa qualita’). Pero’ mi pare incomprensibile che, in modo brusco, chi supera questa soglia, non abbia diritto a nessuna detrazione; cosi’, se la rendita catastale dell’immobile e’ di 450 euro, la tasi dovuta e’ di 50 euro, se la rendita e’ di 451 euro, la tasi dovuta e’ di 250 euro. Possibile che non si potesse modulare meglio la detrazione?
There is no way to translate in english the previous post. It refers to the crazy taxation system we have here in Italy. So don’t worry, it is just a surge and don’t worry, at the end I will pay all the taxes…
I palloncini al Carmine
October 13, 2014 // Posted in Pavia | No Comments
This morning we attended Mass at Carmine. Here we met Anna (with Chiara and Luca) and honestly both Lorenzo and Anna preferred to play together. However, after the Mass their attention was captured by a nice initiative: a lot of colored and flying balloons were shared among all the babies and, at a given time, they were released all together flying in the sky.
Corripavia 2014
October 6, 2014 // Posted in Pavia | No Comments
This year, after 5 years, I decided to run the “Corripavia” a 10km run around Pavia. It was hard to finish because I didn’t train as expected, but it was also funny. Lorenzo was excited too, and with Silvia, they went through the 2.5km path for children. Thanks to Teo and his friends for motivating me. It was a really nice experience.
L’oasi di Sant’Alessio
August 31, 2014 // Posted in animals, Pavia | 1 Comment
Today, together with Luca, Chiara and Anna, we went at “Oasi di Sant’Alessio“, an amazing parc, full of birds, fishes and animals close to Pavia. We knew about it, but for some reason, we never visited it, and today we discovered that we were wrong. The parc is very attractive, and although today we had to spend some energy trying to “control” the exuberant Lorenzo and Anna, missing some detail, we came back home very enthusiastic, with the idea to visit it again soon.
















