NEWS
THIS MONTH
November 2016
POKÉMON STOP
A luxury-hotel chain in Tuscany has come up with
a novel way of attracting business – by offering
therapy to Pokémon GO addicts. Soft Living Places
has acquired the services of multi-lingual
psychologists to help its guests
deal with their dependence on the
smartphone game. “We’re seeing billionaires, sheikhs,
emirs, their wives and children, Russian oligarchs and
Italian industrialists hunting virtual creatures in the
swimming pool, or in the corridor and in reception,”
said the chain’s CEO, Salvatore Madonna. “This is why
I’ve decided to provide my clients with counsellors.”SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...SNIPPETS...
POKÉMON STOP
A luxury-hotel chain in Tuscany has come up with
a novel way of attracting business – by offering
therapy to Pokémon GO
has acquired the services of multi-lingual
psychologists to help its guests
deal with their dependence on the
smartphone game. “We’re seeing billionaires, sheikhs,
emirs, their wives and children, Russian oligarchs and
Italian industrialists hunting virtual creatures in the
swimming pool, or in the corridor and in reception,”
said the chain’s CEO, Salvatore Madonna. “This is why
I’ve decided to provide my clients with counsellors.”In Italian news this month, hide-and-
seek for grown-ups, policeman’s pasta
for the elderly, and happy holidays for
Hollywood stars and the homeless...TURTLE POWER!
When marine biologists in southern Italy made the decision to
separate two new-born conjoined loggerhead turtles, they expected
the worst. Dividing conjoined twins is complicated at the best of
times, but with there only having been seven known cases
involving loggerhead turtles, prior experience was
somewhat lacking. However, while one of the twins
sadly died during the process, the other survived and
was able to be released back into the Mediterranean Sea
off Campania. Said one of the marine biologists, Fulvio
Maffucci, “After the removal of the dead brother
from his chest, he crawled from the nest, and he’s
been released into the wild without any help.”8 ITALIA! November 2016“ONE HUNDRED! COMING, READY OR NOT!”
We were all partial to the occasional game of hide-and-seek when we were kids, but for some
people the fun doesn’t stop with the onset of adulthood. Indeed, there is an annual hide-and-seek
world championship held in northern Italy – and this year’s event, the sixth, has just taken place.
Consonno, near Milan, is the perfect location for a spot of nascondino, as they call the game in Italy.
Once a tourist hotspot for Milanese, it’s been a ghost town since 1976, when a landslide destroyed
the only road into it. No fewer than 64 teams of fi ve players arrived for some stealth-based fun
and games on the 3rd and 4th of September, each having paid €125 per team to enter. And that
number could grow in the future. “Each year, we work to make it larger,” said Giorgio Moratti,
one of the organisers. Sounds like staying out of view could become even more of a challenge!IT144.News.sg4.indd 8 28/09/2016 14:21pm