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Rome, Tourist Heaven, Is Awash in Bird Poop and Garbage
Daily Beast ^ | July 19, 2019 | Barbie Latza Nadeau

Posted on 07/19/2019 8:53:30 AM PDT by C19fan

On a blistering July morning in Rome, a man in a white hazmat suit is collecting samples from a pile of festering and oddly shimmering liquid that has seeped from a dumpster into the cobblestone lanes near the Roman Colosseum.

Around the corner, traffic is backed up on a major street as a massively overfed seagull and a diseased-looking raven tussle over the carcass of a bloated rat. Garbage bags ripped open by rodents spill the contents—rotting food and curdled milk—onto picturesque squares. Citizens have taken matters into their own hands, liberally scattering rat poisoning in the overflowing dumpsters, but that means the smell of decomposing dead rodents and rotting waste permeates the air. And let’s not even talk about the size of the cockroaches that scatter when the city’s church bells toll.

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TOPICS: Travel
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To: GCC Catholic

Mafia controlling the carting industry?

Why, I am just surprised! /s


21 posted on 07/19/2019 9:32:21 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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To: dfwgator

“Luther Vandross?”

Nice!


22 posted on 07/19/2019 9:37:38 AM PDT by MplsSteve
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To: C19fan

Trying to make their muzzie immigrants feel like at home?


23 posted on 07/19/2019 10:10:23 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: C19fan

Fr. James martin in town? Get rid of the gay priests and all will be better.


24 posted on 07/19/2019 10:23:08 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: C19fan

My MIL and her Italian second generation American boyfriend visited Italy a few years ago. He was not impressed.

Italy, he said, was dirty and corrupt. They were forced to purchase toilet paper from a men guarding the entrances to restaurant’s restrooms. The sauces were so thin they “weren’t Italian”, and everywhere it was dirty.
In short, he was disappointed.


25 posted on 07/19/2019 10:47:20 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: dfwgator

Plus the gypsies in Rome will rob you blind in broad daylight. They use children to literally assault tourists.

I once ran into what must have been a mother/daughter pair along a major thoroughfare with streets crowded with Romans and tourists. The daughter, 14 years old or so, grabbed my right arm with an iron grip with both hands and wouldn’t let get while the Mother went through my pockets.

I couldn’t shake the grip of the girl and began turning turning in a circle to literally throw her into the street and had the daughter flying off the ground trying to shake her grip.

The mother got a few things out of my pockets but was unable to fish out the most valuable things. Plus my wallet and passport were safe in a body pouch under my shirt, belt and and pants. Others walking the crowded street ignored all this except for someone driving by who stopped his car, got out in the traffic (no room to park) and helped me release the iron grip of the daughter. At which point the girl and woman fled.

I was hesitant to really knock out the woman and girl — which I would have to do with my left hand. But I assumed I would have been the one arrested. I went to the police afterward and they shrugged their shoulders.

Smaller gypsy children also descend like a pack of wolves on groups of tourists and pick their pockets and then flee en masse. Because they are children, the Roman police and politicians act helpless to do anything about it.

Also beware young Roman men coming up to you at the airport and offering you a ride. They generally are going to charge you 10 or 20 times the going rate when you reach your destination.


26 posted on 07/19/2019 10:47:47 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: C19fan

Is this something new?


27 posted on 07/19/2019 10:58:09 AM PDT by bgill
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To: babble-on

Too many tourists?

Try too many Africans.


28 posted on 07/19/2019 11:03:38 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: WashingtonSource
re. Plus the gypsies in Rome will rob you blind in broad daylight.

Venice also. My folks visited some years back. A pickpocket got my Dad's wallet and my Mom's purse was slashed, though fortunately they didn't get anything from her.

29 posted on 07/19/2019 11:43:21 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: SunkenCiv

Rome has always been, shall we say, untidy, but the sights are well worth a visit. In terms of hanging out, though, I much prefer Tuscany or Venice and the cities south of the Lake Country, which is spectacular.


30 posted on 07/19/2019 11:46:30 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: WashingtonSource

When I travel, I never have anything in my pockets.

I have a neck wallet that is under my shirt, and an small daybag if I need to carry anything, that I always hold onto.


31 posted on 07/19/2019 12:04:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ken in texas

Every major Western European city is like that, Barcelona was real bad.


32 posted on 07/19/2019 12:04:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Wiser now
The sauces were so thin they “weren’t Italian”

That is a mistaken idea many Americans have, misunderstanding the basics of Italian cooking. They never promoted thick tomato-pasty sauces. Their pasta and/or pizza sauce is basically olive oil with garlic and a few chopped tomatoes and/or other vegetables thrown in, sautéed rapidly and very fresh. It's delicious and less caloric, by the way, than the thick, cheese-laden American pasta and pizza sauces.

33 posted on 07/19/2019 2:50:04 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: C19fan

My Daughter went a few years ago and said rats and cats were a problem. My daughter has 5 cats so take that in consideration.


34 posted on 07/19/2019 2:55:34 PM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: circlecity

hot summertime is the traditional time for Garbage Services Strikes


35 posted on 07/19/2019 3:06:40 PM PDT by elbook
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To: Albion Wilde

Eddie was comparing what he was served in Italy with the food his Italian mother prepared. Apparently she made her sauces thicker. He was really disappointed, and he ranted about that trip for weeks.


36 posted on 07/19/2019 6:59:31 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Wiser now

I’ve heard from other Italian-Americans how grateful they feel that their foreparents migrated here!


37 posted on 07/19/2019 8:05:07 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: cnsmom; MinuteGal

“I went in 1985 and was mugged by one of the pickpocket gangs. I will never return.”

I, and various others in my tour group (college courses on Italian history, followed by trip), were all ripped off by wandering gypsy thieves, and that was 30 years ago. Rome is the perfect city for a neutron bomb, one that gets rid of its inhabitants while leaving all the buildings and monuments intact.


38 posted on 07/20/2019 1:20:25 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45 - will lethargic Conservatives let him be impeached by Dems? )
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To: Albion Wilde; MinuteGal

“Their pasta and/or pizza sauce is basically olive oil with garlic and a few chopped tomatoes and/or other vegetables thrown in, sautéed rapidly and very fresh. It’s delicious and less caloric, by the way, than the thick, cheese-laden American pasta and pizza sauces.”

I second this motion. Had the best simple fresh pizza margherita I’ve ever eaten in a resort town on the Adriatic in Italy years ago.


39 posted on 07/20/2019 1:31:24 AM PDT by flaglady47 (TRUMP 45 - will lethargic Conservatives let him be impeached by Dems? )
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To: flaglady47
Your post # 38...LOL !!!

Leni

40 posted on 07/20/2019 8:45:36 AM PDT by MinuteGal ( MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !)
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