Espresso machines

Paul Marx said:
Going to live in Italy was a plan I toyed with many years. In the Veneto that I fell in love with more particularly.
Naples is something to say the least.
I love the deep South as well but the weight of religion and tradition is very present.

Life decided otherwise.

Looks like I've bought that Faema expresso machine. Don't tell the wife. It took me a few months to tell her that I'd bought a Falcone. And it cost me an engagement ring.
This should be easier.

Paul
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Good on you for the faema !  It will bring hours of fun !  I won?t tell the wife
 
If anyone is interested , this is how the group head works on about 90% of espresso machines in cafes and bars etc. They may be hidden behind covers, or flashing light digital displays , but this is the grand daddy of them all. Even a lot of the more professional oriented  home use machines have this group on it.




https://youtu.be/2jn28YTS3OQ
 
Thanks for posting the video. Great stuff. Paul, congratulations on the acquisition ! I can see myself scouring Northern California for a machine.....

We have had to cancel an upcoming trip to Milan to visit my two step-sisters who live there. We were there last year, and also near Venice for a combined 60th birthday celebration for me and family holiday with my younger brother ( for Paul, I snuck off on my own one morning to go to l'Officina and see Marco and Guiliano and bike ) ; absolutely glorious times.

Milan was great growing up, and Rome later too as my mum ended up living there. I was at boarding school in the UK from the age of 8 but a month at Christmas, a month at Easter and two months in the summer at home in Italy were wonderful.

Looking back it seems incredible that we were allowed to ride 50cc mopeds / motorbikes aged 14 with no helmet or license. The ultimate was to have a Fantic or Gilera or Aspes scrambler. KTM too but I cannot remember if they only started at 125cc.

I don't know if I could live there full time. The grass is always greener on the other side.

 
I would love to visit moto officina and see the things they do there.  Last time I was in Milan I stoped in officina mermaid , and of course Eataly Milan, it?s quite cool having the old Ducati in the upstairs windows. It wasn?t a bike trip or work trip, so I had to visit wife sites of interest too, which isn?t bad at all. Normally when I?m in Milan it?s to visit Harken, but I always make time to visit a few bike shops and to pick up our next delivery of roasted coffee. There is just something about Italy that clicks for me , especially around Lake Garda .
 
Piranha Brother 2 said:
Congiuntivo, Cam! Bravo!! I'd question the use of 'del' rather than 'che il' if I could remember la regola! Too long ago, l'universit?!

Marco? Spiegaci!
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"del" is more elegant than "che il", but they're both correct!
 
I really don't understand what do people find in Milan.. It's busy, congested, polluted, people are always busy, and there's much less history than a lot of other italian places!
I think it's because it looks like some other foreign cities.

To take a tour to italy, i think Veneto is one of the best choice: of course Venice, but also some other cities, great wine, good beer, medium food, great mountains, and the beautiful (but busy) Garda lake.

but for a bike tour, you definetly need to come on our Appennini, between Emilia romagna and Tuscany (maybe with a visit to Brettoni's workshop!): great roads, great food, great wine, great people, great historical villages (Monteriggioni, Montepulciano, ecc..)

Anyway, the top of the roads are in Sardinia: perfect extra-gripping tarmac, on very technical roads with no traffic and almost no police (and anyway, they're quite kind when you meet them!) !
 
lo_zarro said:
I really don't understand what do people find in Milan.. It's busy, congested, polluted, people are always busy, and there's much less history than a lot of other italian places!
I think it's because it looks like some other foreign cities.

To take a tour to italy, i think Veneto is one of the best choice: of course Venice, but also some other cities, great wine, good beer, medium food, great mountains, and the beautiful (but busy) Garda lake.

but for a bike tour, you definetly need to come on our Appennini, between Emilia romagna and Tuscany (maybe with a visit to Brettoni's workshop!): great roads, great food, great wine, great people, great historical villages (Monteriggioni, Montepulciano, ecc..)

Anyway, the top of the roads are in Sardinia: perfect extra-gripping tarmac, on very technical roads with no traffic and almost no police (and anyway, they're quite kind when you meet them!) !
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Funny , so many Italians  dislike that about Milan. Perhaps foreigners that have been to Italy more than the average tourist, find it nice ? You could be right about it being like a foreign city, but for me the area is rich in engineering history and skill, and to this day there is a huge amount of engineering skill available there. For me perhaps I should also say it?s one of the better airport cities to fly into , because it?s quick to get out of the city, depending which airport you fly into, Milan can get you to a lot of places , it?s like a gateway

I hear you on Sardinia, and their roads, I?m lucky enough to work their about 6_ work weeks every year for the last 15 years, it?s also one of my favorite places to visit, but so different to mainland Italy


Viva Italia !!!!! I love her so
 
sideshow said:
Funny , so many Italians  dislike that about Milan. Perhaps foreigners that have been to Italy more than the average tourist, find it nice ? You could be right about it being like a foreign city, but for me the area is rich in engineering history and skill, and to this day there is a huge amount of engineering skill available there. For me perhaps I should also say it?s one of the better airport cities to fly into , because it?s quick to get out of the city, depending which airport you fly into, Milan can get you to a lot of places , it?s like a gateway
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eveything right! but all these features make Milan a good place for working, not for living!  :D

about engineering, in Italy we have different places for different branches of engineering: Milan is the cradle of energetic, and in the nearby area, there's a lot of industries for tissue machines. Between Modena and Bologna there are the so called Motor Valley (2 and 4 wheels) and Packaging Valley because of the concentration of firms (and I work as an engineer in one of them!).
so it depends in what kind of skills you're looking for! Milan isn't always the right answer!!

 
Even naming a coffee machine " Atomic" shows so much style.....

Milan is....Milan. Rome is Rome, Spilimbergo is Spilimbergo etc etc. We always love where we came from / places of which we have happy memories growing up that influenced us , no ?
 
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