Curious items until discovering that there are no screens on the windows. A colleague from Australia said, "Italians can invent perspective, but can't figure out window screens." Another said that leaning out of windows is part of the Italian social structure, screens simply won't do (photo below from another blogger).
After waging battle with a few late night mosquitoes and, yes, squishing them against a wall or two, I went looking for mosquito netting. An everything-store (where everything spills out onto the street like Michelangelo's Laurentian Library staircase - maybe that's where he got the idea?) had a role of plastic window screen (yes!).
Yesterday, I put it up on the bedroom window. A scissors, ruler, and masking tape is all that I needed. Now I can sleep more soundly knowing I'm not l'antipasto.
2 comments:
So if you are not allowed to kill mosquitos on the walls, do you use the swatters, one in each hand, to clap them to death?
Oh, plastic screen? Masking tape?? I wonder how you will open the shutters, now.
It should be easier to buy a ready set of fine and soft mosquito net which usually comes with some velcro strip... Next time check at the COOP or CONAD supermarket, maybe even in 1 Euro shops. But as soon as you need alternative anti-mosquito devices, give me a call before you burn down the whole apartment.
PS: I'm sure the next renters will read the following in the handbook: forbidden to ruin window frames with masking tape... ;-))
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