Today I was doing in his spare time a parallel between Italy and Japan. Both are, in geographical terms, longer than wide, oriented roughly from north to south. Both are crossed in this verse by a mountain range (coincidentally called the Japanese Alps).
While starting from the same premise we reach the same conclusion, why the Italian railway network is said to be hampered by the conformation of the territory, while the Japanese counterpart allows for speeding shinkansen across the country?
Other interesting parallel: in both countries the winter arrives. And what happens in winter? They tell us right from primary school: the snow falls!
in Japan due to the snow more than a couple of hours of discomfort to the rail, just long enough to clear the line.
In Italy instead, just a bit of snow to block trains and highways and cause an emergency. But on the other hand is known as the Apennines are a charming seaside resort, which in the recent past the shepherds away in winter transhumance to escape the swarms of Teutonic bikini in winter and the sea calm.
Another effect of the cold in Italy is that it brings skyrocketing prices of fruits and vegetables, because, guess', when winter's cold and the plants suffer. But in Japan, where it's cold equal if not more, strawberries, a typical winter fruit, have virtually the same price since October, despite the falling snow.
And finally, while in Italy the price of fuel seems to be equipped with an exhaust system (mechanism consisting of a toothed wheel and a pawl, which serves to advance the wheel in one direction) and can only get here in Japan, a country famous for its abundance of indigenous oil fields (as much as it is the north pole for the sale of refrigerators), the price of gasoline is oddly up and down overnight.
But we in Italy's San Remo that solves all problems, but here ...
soon!
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