http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA7XQSm1nj8&feature=youtu.beWish I was going to be there...looks fantastically bizarre!
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I found this online and would love to get hold of an original. Any suggestions? The Gran Sasso giftshop didn't have any!!http://tinypic.com/r/359cx9j/6
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 07:54
Someone asked me to report on our stay in the Ospizio San Gottardo on our way down by car. Having recovered sufficiently from the heat on arrival in Italy here goes:Thanks to all of you who recommended routes and hotels.
Tue, 06/19/2012 - 08:38
In September I'm doing the nearest I'll ever do to jetsetting by flying back to London for a meeting then out again the next day! I'm planning to leave the hire car at Ciampino overnight.
Fri, 05/25/2012 - 14:47
New website:http://www.thelittlebritishfoodshop.com/Delivery all over Italy
Thu, 05/17/2012 - 18:10
A particular historical hobbyhorse of minehttps://www.yousendit.com/download/M3BrT0NZNHY5eFd5VmNUQw
Sat, 05/05/2012 - 12:10
I've just finished this book written in 1966 by John Verney, who was a PoW in Sulmona and was looked after by local contadini after his escape.
Mon, 04/23/2012 - 19:25
Hitting Dunkirk 7pm local time on 15th June and planning to get a couple of hours under our belt. I have been looking at hotels around Namur, but can't decide.
Fri, 03/09/2012 - 13:09
An Italian in Britain writes.....http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16141184
Tue, 12/13/2011 - 16:20
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It looks awful - those poor people whose homes and workshops have been filled with stinking mud. Not the sunny Italy of the holiday brochures!
Thanks Fillide - I feel better about shelling out for TI now! I presume you know about their "free calls to Europe" for E10 a month
Agree re the woodburner. Pellet stoves are fine if you've got somewhere to store the pellets and don't mind the noise of the fan - I wouldn't use one in a "quiet" area
Not for the purist maybe - but they ARE very pretty bottles http://www.justminiatures.co.uk/campari-soda-ready-to-drink-10cl-miniature-p-5093.html?currency=GBP
Agree with all of the above (especially the maps). From personal experience I'd suggest you look at the following: Drive to Foce (nice little restaurant) and take off from there on foot up to Lago di Pilato Drive up to Castellucio and take your pick. In fact, just before you go round the corner of M Vettore and Castellucio comes into view there are two routes - on the left takes you past a Refuge and along a track to a Belvedere. It's even been concreted for the disabled, though now in advanced disrepair. Go right and you'll get up onto the ridge of M Vettore You can't miss where I mean, there's a map on the roadside and always cars parked (usually some of them belonging to paragliders) I'm not a real mountain walker, so these may seem too easy for you. But if you just want somewhere to start I hope that helps
You couldn't be more wrong Fillide. Can't be bothered to put you right but you could always try reading his book
So long as he goes I'm happy. Not an Italian but I feel for the country as Raggio describes. Just the briefest of accquaintance with its sufferings (malaria; WW2 rastrellamenti; the mezzadria - never mind organised crime) shows it deserves so much better Forza donne Italiane!!
I agree Lotan, why use a few words when you could ramble on for ever. Whoever said that brevity was the soul of wit was obviously a fool. And I think you confuse the words "debate" and "lecture". I don't think, Fillide, that your "4 yr old on the subway" example proves anything either way. After all, in the Middle Ages when Britain was totally monocultural (leaving aside the fact that the country had already been colonised many times by different races) they burnt old women whom it was decided were witches. Just because two things happen at the same time doesn't mean there's any link.
I always thought that multiculturalism was just a preparedness to allow room for different ways of living. Can't see that a desire for Marmite really offends against that. And I'm always suspicious of any claims that the country you've left behind is all bad. Sounds like special pleading to me. Italy isn't the promised land and the UK isn't the epitome of evil. People arrive and leave for many reasons. If it doesn't work out it's no disgrace. “Whingeing” is annoying but hardly a crime. I agree that if you move to a country you should be sensitive to its ways. But you don't have to slavishly accept everything. And suggesting that Italy is somehow above criticism is just condescension Just my view of course...
An old article giving the history of Fidoka http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1862006.ece