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Article: Fishing for the answer to Italy's shower curtain mystery
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 23, 1997
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You learn the strangest things by moving house. Like the enigma
of the non-existent Italian shower curtain. Or the even deeper
enigma of the non-existent Italian furniture. Or, most bizarrely,
the finer points of fish-gutting in a public fountain. So many
piercing insights into utter trivia. And we've only moved a few
hundred yards down the street.
Broadly speaking, there are two ways of finding a flat in Rome.
The first is called pot luck, and involves stumbling upon some
kindly dowager who would be awfully obliged if you would be so kind
as to sit in her panoramic attic with extensive roof terraces for a
couple of years, all for the price of a couple of cappuccinos a
day.
The other, more ...