This week we have been dealing with a truckers' strike. All truckers in the country went on strike for 5 days (Monday-Friday) this week. The biggest effect that it had on us was gas for the cars. When gas isn't delivered to gas stations, they run out!!!!! We were lucky and found a station with gas and were able to fill our tank, but some people were not so lucky and are basically stranded. I was also already stocked on what I needed from the grocery store, but I have been told that there are no eggs to be found and that milk and bread are scarce--basically anything fresh is hit or miss. I was also talking to someone who was driving on the autostrada a couple of days ago and said that there are trucks stopped all over and that the drivers' have tents set up and are having picnic lunches and whatnot. Crazy!! In Naples they had to close the schools and everything because driving is pretty much not possible because of all the roads being blocked by the trucks. What an experience!
An update: the strike is apparently over--it only went 3 days instead of 5 because they crippled the country (imagine that). So things are getting back to normal, but it will still take a while for everything to be restocked.
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