A motorino is far and away the best method of getting around town in Rome. Now Piaggio, the company that built the first scooter back in 1946, has introduced an innovative new mdoel: the MP3 with twin front wheels. The main advantage seems to be that it brakes better than regular 2-wheelers.
Bikram Yoga has arrived, at last, in Rome! Via Aurelia 190!
Update: We’ve taken our first class! It’s bilingual, the owners are an Italian/American couple, and very friendly and laid-back.
The price of this friendliness and laid-backness however is that the place itself is not exactly designer chic. We can live with that. The studio is kind of small, but providing classes stay small, that’s just fine too; more personal attention.
Our criticism, and we could be getting Bikram Yoga Roma into trouble here with Mr Choudhoury himself, is that the temperature is not really 40 degrees Celsius. More like 35.
Hotter please.
Are the Hollywood giants smothering Italian film with theirs super mega productions filled to the brim with incredible special effects? Or can Italy regain some its glorious film history and give the Hollywood movie giants a run for their money?
The figures clearly put Italy in second place – in 2004, over 150 first-run Hollywood films were shown in Italian cinemas, in comparison with only just over 100 home-produced films and co-productions. Lots of work for those dubbing artists since showing films in their original language is not the done thing over here – unfortunately.
Who could deny that Rome is a perfect film set – in fact you often see people filming in some beautiful little side street but generally it’s for feature films commissioned by TV. In fact these days it’s television that keeps the big Roman film studios such as Cinecitta in business. Who knows, maybe this year’s Venice Film Festival will bring some pleasant surprises.
