Haven’t updated the blog over the Bank Holiday weekend due to the fact that I’ve spent most of it huddling in one room with my better half. Our boiler blew up on the coldest weekend of the year, knocking out the electricity in most rooms of the house and leaving us debating the benefits of a wind up laptop and whether we she have invested in a convector heater when there were actually some on sale. Still, at least I can console myself with the fact that it's freezing in Sardinia too.
A couple of stories I noticed on my return to the 20th century.
According to Reuters Naples police rescued two teenage Bulgarian sisters from a circus in southern Italy which forced one of them to swim with flesh-eating piranhas for the amusement of guests, police said.
While the 19-year-old sister swam in a transparent tank, the younger, 16-year-old was forced into a container where the circus staff tossed snakes at her.
The Pope took the controversial step of baptising former Muslim, Magdi Allam, and was branded “provocative” and accused of "scoring points" by Aref Ali Nayed, head of Jordan's Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre and apparently one of the ‘moderates’ we read so much about in the UK press.
According to Allam a writer for Corriere della Sera, Islam is “physiologically violent and historically conflictual” and “legitimises lies and deception”.
Needless to say he’s now received a number of death threats and is under police protection.
Read the full story here
And finally throwaway culture came back to bite Italy in the arse when - according to the Independent newspaper - it emerged that that most Italian of food stuffs buffalo mozzarella had become contaminated as a result of illegal dumping of toxic waste in Campania by a branch of the Italian Mafia.
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