Not because I am scared about our safety (though husband is worried about what i will say haha with my big mouth ) but because i am so shocked that a culture can be so decimated by a band of thugs and don't fancy my.money ending up.in their pockets. A history of Sicily i am reading (listening on Audible ) had me awake half the night in disbelief. Apparently no-one can be bothered to try anything enterprising because of the mafia's corrosive influence and a lot of people move away or more commonly just try to have an easy life . The historian said the most common aspiration is simply rest.
Tourism suffers because they (mafia) dont like change and refuse to improve the infrastructure of systems such as public transport etc. Libraries have among the most ancient manuscripts in the world but can't be accessed due to to an appalling outdated disintegrating filing system where they never even bothered to use the typewriter when it was invented and a lot of the indexing is on fading handwritten cards... EU money is not being spent on the improvements for which they are granted but siphoned off into their pockets to the extent that people on the ground can't be bothered to request the grants anymore but see that their taxes are being spent improving cities in other countries.....
Call.me naive but I was shocked to the core and felt so grateful I'd been raised in a system with inherent values I could believe in. Even though it sucks sometimes I do believe in our justice system.
I've always known the popular image of the mafia through the films etc but had always presumed it was improving which it doesn't seem to be.....I can't find anything in Google to suggest it is - though I'm sure there's another story to be had somewhere.....
Has anyone else felt this way ? I'm supposed to be visiting in a few days and I have gone right off the idea. Help!!
Tourism suffers because they (mafia) dont like change and refuse to improve the infrastructure of systems such as public transport etc. Libraries have among the most ancient manuscripts in the world but can't be accessed due to to an appalling outdated disintegrating filing system where they never even bothered to use the typewriter when it was invented and a lot of the indexing is on fading handwritten cards... EU money is not being spent on the improvements for which they are granted but siphoned off into their pockets to the extent that people on the ground can't be bothered to request the grants anymore but see that their taxes are being spent improving cities in other countries.....
Call.me naive but I was shocked to the core and felt so grateful I'd been raised in a system with inherent values I could believe in. Even though it sucks sometimes I do believe in our justice system.
I've always known the popular image of the mafia through the films etc but had always presumed it was improving which it doesn't seem to be.....I can't find anything in Google to suggest it is - though I'm sure there's another story to be had somewhere.....
Has anyone else felt this way ? I'm supposed to be visiting in a few days and I have gone right off the idea. Help!!