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[Teeny]

wow, Djgafi, texred and Teeny, i'm glad to see you posting in here, (and batsheva, it's about time!

Djgafi, I noticed that not too many women ride bikes in Italy, that's for sure. When we went to bike shops there, I noticed there were very few bikes made with a woman in mind. However, i noticed that motorists were much nicer to cyclists in the roads at least in Piacenza where we were riding.

Txred, keep riding. And you don't have to ride further every time you try. Just keep riding.

Teeny, do you know Italian?

Nope, except maybe a frase or two from the section at the back of the guidebook...

[Biciclista]

Nope, except maybe a frase or two from the section at the back of the guidebook...

like "La Svezia?"

[Teeny]

like "La Svezia?"

Yeah, and pizza and francobolli and buon giorno.... etc...

Speaking of Italian, a couple of friends of mine went on a road trip to Italy last summer. One of the girls is a reasonably fluent Italian speaker as she's worked and lived in Milan for a while. However, the fluency apparently did not extend to traffic signs as they came to realise. They were driving on some small mountain roads going towards Carrara (?) regularly passing signs reading 'Rallantare'. My 'fluent' friend somehow interpreted this as meaning 'honk', so thus, they went honking down the mountain. Obviosuly, other drivers stared at them clearly thinking they were nuts. As they got back to the hotel, my friend got her dictionary out and eventually realised it meant nothing along the lines of 'honk if you can read this sign'... (Am I right in recalling that it means 'slow down'?)

[TxDoc]

Speaking of Italian, a couple of friends of mine went on a road trip to Italy last summer. One of the girls is a reasonably fluent Italian speaker as she's worked and lived in Milan for a while. However, the fluency apparently did not extend to traffic signs as they came to realise. They were driving on some small mountain roads going towards Carrara (?) regularly passing signs reading 'Rallantare'. My 'fluent' friend somehow interpreted this as meaning 'honk', so thus, they went honking down the mountain. Obviosuly, other drivers stared at them clearly thinking they were nuts. As they got back to the hotel, my friend got her dictionary out and eventually realised it meant nothing along the lines of 'honk if you can read this sign'... (Am I right in recalling that it means 'slow down'?)

This is one funny story, and yes, you recall correctly - it does mean slow down
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