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Travelling with laptop in Italy
I'm planning a trip to Italy (Florence for 1 week, then into the countryside for a week) and was thinking of taking my laptop. What is the consensus on the advisability of traveling in Italy with an expensive gadget. Do most hotels have places to lock such things up in the room? In the Hotel? Will I have to live in fear of the cut-purse snatching my backpack? How about when in B&B/Agriturismo's in the countryside? How safe are they to leave things while I check out the local chianti? whd -- MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich. -- Ambrose Bierce: _The Devil's Dictionary_ |
Travelling with laptop in Italy
No problem you won't get mugged at every corner, this is not the USA.
Most hotels will give you the possibility to lock it up. People in Italy do have laptops and much more ! "William Daffer" a écrit dans le message de news: ... I'm planning a trip to Italy (Florence for 1 week, then into the countryside for a week) and was thinking of taking my laptop. What is the consensus on the advisability of traveling in Italy with an expensive gadget. Do most hotels have places to lock such things up in the room? In the Hotel? Will I have to live in fear of the cut-purse snatching my backpack? How about when in B&B/Agriturismo's in the countryside? How safe are they to leave things while I check out the local chianti? whd -- MAUSOLEUM, n. The final and funniest folly of the rich. -- Ambrose Bierce: _The Devil's Dictionary_ |
Travelling with laptop in Italy
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:54:58 -0700, William Daffer
wrote: I'm planning a trip to Italy (Florence for 1 week, then into the countryside for a week) and was thinking of taking my laptop. What is the consensus on the advisability of traveling in Italy with an expensive gadget. Do most hotels have places to lock such things up in the room? In the Hotel? Most moderately priced hotels have no room safes, and the room safes I've seen are rather small, just the right size for stashing your diamonds. However, I've never had anything stolen from a hotel room in Italy. More important, though, is the inconvenience of lugging a laptop. What do you want it for? If it's for checking email occasionally, you will find enough internet cafes to check in every day or so. If it's for downloading photos, there are smaller and more convenient solutions. I recently bought a Palm Life Drive which has a 4 gigbyte hard drive and a camera card slot. It also functions as an mp3 player and has wifi for connecting to the internet, although finding a wifi zone will not be easy in Italy. Will I have to live in fear of the cut-purse snatching my backpack? How about when in B&B/Agriturismo's in the countryside? How safe are they to leave things while I check out the local chianti? whd -- Barbara Vaughan My email address is my first initial followed by my surname at libero dot it I answer travel questions only in the newsgroup |
Travelling with laptop in Italy
"William Daffer" wrote in message
... I'm planning a trip to Italy (Florence for 1 week, then into the countryside for a week) and was thinking of taking my laptop. What is the consensus on the advisability of traveling in Italy with an expensive gadget. Do most hotels have places to lock such things up in the room? In the Hotel? I've traveled with a laptop but my trick is that I carry a Tiger Direct "recertified" cheapie ($300) 6 year-old IBM Thinkpad. If it does get stolen I don't have to kill myself over it. It does everything I need a laptop to do and I don't worry about babying it. BTW, if you want wireless (cellular) access in Italy look into Wind's Mega-No-Limit data option. They used to have a true unlimited wireless Internet option but not since they implemented 3G service. -- Donald R. Newcomb DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net |
Travelling with laptop in Italy
No problem you won't get mugged at every corner, this is not the USA.
This might have been true in the USA of 1990, but it's certainly not true of today's USA, which is in fact a lot safer than Western Europe. Maybe there are more criminals in the USA, but don't forget that their prison population per capita is about 10 times as high as in Europe, so the criminals aren't on the street. |
Travelling with laptop in Italy
On 13 Jul 2006 04:36:22 -0700, "Kinetic" wrote:
No problem you won't get mugged at every corner, this is not the USA. This might have been true in the USA of 1990, but it's certainly not true of today's USA, which is in fact a lot safer than Western Europe. That's rubbish. Maybe there are more criminals in the USA, but don't forget that their prison population per capita is about 10 times as high as in Europe, so the criminals aren't on the street. You must be so proud. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
Travelling with laptop in Italy
Dave Frightens Me wrote:
On 13 Jul 2006 04:36:22 -0700, "Kinetic" wrote: No problem you won't get mugged at every corner, this is not the USA. This might have been true in the USA of 1990, but it's certainly not true of today's USA, which is in fact a lot safer than Western Europe. That's rubbish. Not quite. While the US still has a high murder rate, overall crime in tourist areas is generally very low. If you looked into statistics for crime against tourists (which I suppose is more relevant to this group) you'd find that Western European cities probably had a higher rate in general. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
Travelling with laptop in Italy
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:05:09 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote: Dave Frightens Me wrote: On 13 Jul 2006 04:36:22 -0700, "Kinetic" wrote: No problem you won't get mugged at every corner, this is not the USA. This might have been true in the USA of 1990, but it's certainly not true of today's USA, which is in fact a lot safer than Western Europe. That's rubbish. Not quite. While the US still has a high murder rate, overall crime in tourist areas is generally very low. If you looked into statistics for crime against tourists (which I suppose is more relevant to this group) you'd find that Western European cities probably had a higher rate in general. But we are talking about safety, not crime. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
Travelling with laptop in Italy
Dave Frightens Me wrote:
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:05:09 +0100, (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote: Dave Frightens Me wrote: On 13 Jul 2006 04:36:22 -0700, "Kinetic" wrote: No problem you won't get mugged at every corner, this is not the USA. This might have been true in the USA of 1990, but it's certainly not true of today's USA, which is in fact a lot safer than Western Europe. That's rubbish. Not quite. While the US still has a high murder rate, overall crime in tourist areas is generally very low. If you looked into statistics for crime against tourists (which I suppose is more relevant to this group) you'd find that Western European cities probably had a higher rate in general. But we are talking about safety, not crime. I don't think it makes a difference. The places where foreign tourists go in the US are generally very safe, low rates of muggings, violent assault etc. The murder rate very rarely impacts on tourists. -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |
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