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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Check out this post http://www.italymag.co.uk/community/post/recent-arrivals-le-marche
If you don't already know of it, you might be able to advertise them here???: http://www.maceratamonthly.com/ Benvenuto dalle Marche del Sud!
I don't know how to attach files here - but I recently discovered an account of the only occasion where partisans directly and victoriously attacked a Jewish concentration camp. It happened at Camp 59, Servigliano in S Marche in May 1944, which had been a PoW camp up to the Armistice in Sept 43 The partisans called in Allied bombers who breached the walls and they then evacuated the Jewish internees who were then looked after by the local "Committees of Liberation" If anyone wants a copy of the account given by the Jewish-Italian leader of the Monte San Martino resistance, Vito Volterra, pm me. Or someone tell me how to attach it here!
Thankyou poeta You might be interested in this book "In the Prison of His Days" by Norman Davison http://www.amazon.co.uk/Prison-His-Days-Memoirs-Captured/dp/0956007589/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271772553&sr=1-1 and http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/2010/02/08/gunner-g-norman-davisons-memoirs/ which recounts Norman's capture, imprisonment and then assistance by partisans to get over the border into Switzerland. His son John has written to a local resistance organisation: http://www.vigevanoeresistenza.it/site/home/una-mail-dal-regno-unito-15-3-10 If you're in the area, you might look them up. If you'd like to speak to John - who would I'm sure love help with his research - let me know All the best Anne
Hi Geoff Not your prison camp, but for a mass of info regarding PoWs and their Italian helpers you could look here: http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/ and this more general site: http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/frames.htm and this: http://www.prisonerofwar.org.uk/ There will probably be Italian sites regarding the Resistance in and around Milan. You could try writing to the Milan section of the National Association of Partisans: Comitato Regionale ANPI LOMBARDIA - via San Marco 49 - 20121 Milano. tel. 02 76020620 Fax 02 784675. e-mail: info@anpilombardia.191.it BTW "Duomo" is the Italian for Cathedral - it seems your father was sheltered in Milan Cathedral
Good luck Brian Where in Italy will you be looking?
Thanks Mark. I had a couple of hours to spare before flying out of Rome Ciampino, so though I'd give my son and his friend a bit of exposure to ancient Rome in the form of a walk along the Appian Way as reached from the airport. As we walked along, with me expounding as to ancient tombs of Roman nobility, it was soon clear they were seriously distracted by all the ladies of the night plying their trade in the middle of the afternoon. Sounds like Ostia Antica would have been a better bet!
WOT! So evolution really IS only a theory????
and doors Joy??
...so I use this as a workaround. Which isn't ideal, but I'm afraid I can't get too worked up over something so trivial