Oh, sure, a quite up to date place where you live. Now, when did I get a
cell phone with reliable service? Years ago.
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From: Ken Norton
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:43 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Italy
> Even if wine is part of the healthy meditarenean diet, water is
> completely safe, at least in Rome.
The first time I went to Europe, right before 1980, the water warnings
(especially in France) were widespread. In the '90s when I was over in
Europe several times a year, the warnings were no more, but some
places I went you just knew not to try your luck. Rome was still one
of those places. Somewhere along the way, European countries were no
longer third-world countries when it came to water quality. Not sure
when that happened, but I'm sure it was a whole lot sooner than we
prideful Americans thought.
Canadian water? Not nearly as bad as their beer. ;)
I got an interesting education one day, when observing a
road-construction project in Italy. In the town I was staying, outside
of Rome, the city had a rough look to it. Actually, it reminded me a
lot of a spaghetti western. I half-expected to hear the flute and the
rattle-snake shaker sound and seeing a tumbleweed blowing past.
(actually, a tumbleweed did blow past). Above ground it was rough, old
and most things dated back earlier than the American Revolution. There
was a big hole in the ground at an intersection in the road. It was
simply incredible the number of pipes, conduits, power runs and other
things under there. There were dozens of fiber-optic ducts running
every which way. It's weird, but I became much less critical of what I
could see above ground. For the past dozen years, I've worked in the
telecom industry and I have even more of an appreciation for what's
under our feet. Even in rural Iowa, where the media likes to pretend
that everybody is a hayseed hick (Iowa State University graduate) and
just cling to our guns and religion, we have an incredible amount of
technology and advancement (University of Iowa). Just like that
tumbleweed town in Italy, which I had misjudged, in Iowa we actually
are as well, if not better, connected than most any location in the
big modern cities. The only real difference is the length of the
cables, not the size of the cables.
AG
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