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Someone posted on the old forum about the thousand-year old trails used for the movement of sheep herds from Abruzzo to Puglia. I think they have a special name, but can't remember it. Anyway, a very go-ahead Abruzzese now offers the chance to wa
Has anyone seen this movie? If so, can they explain the point of it? Saw it tonight and glad I'd bought the cheap seats! Has it been shown in Italy? If so, what's the Italian verdict?
Saw this at my local fleapit this evening. Specially recommended to those of us not in Italy - it conjures up the Italian way of talking about and preparing food - I could almost taste the sparkling wine they were drinking. This is a good preci
So you can now inherit your job in a bankhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/nov/20/italy-bank-hereditary-jobsI think mostof us know about t
I'm doing a bit of research on Italians who helped escaping PoWs and have come across a photo with the following written on the back:Montefalcone li 25-6-1944 (A Piceno)Mio dovere come patriota, lasciarvi a tutti il ricordoFamiglia xxxx, xxxx xxxx
I've posted about this newsletter before, in the old forum, but thought I would remind those with an interest in S Marche of its continued existence. It has now been going for a year, and a celebratory gathering is suggested in the latest edition
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I signed up to the Internazionale online without any probs - so it's certainly worth a try. And saves a fortune in calls all over Europe. I don't think there are any limitations ......
let's hope this is at least the end of the beginning
Would that be before or after the grenades had blown it up???!
I second Terry's recommendation of "Italy's Sorrow". Harrowing reading though, since it is mostly personal testimony of a bloody carnage that has always unfairly played second fiddle to D-Day. Not your region, but there is a lot of information about PoWs camps in Marche here: http://camp59survivors.wordpress.com/
Logged on to BBC website???? Do tell - if it can be used for web access as well that makes it even better!!
Bought mine in UK, took it out to Italy and downloaded newspapers daily. Came back to UK and Kindle still registered in UK. I haven't used it since my return. But I do have the 3G version.
WE don't have wi-fi in our house in S Marche but having bourght the more expensive 3G Kindle that worked fine. Halfway up a mountain last week we saw Obama on the telly in the bar and I was able on returning to the house to download The Times on a free trial to find out what was going on. Pretty cool - though the Thunderer isn't my newspaper of choice....
I'm with you Casa. Immigration is used as a political football and cheap vote-mongering. There's a case in UK this week where a woman trafficked from Moldova was sent back,despite her applying for asylum, because the authorities did not consider her at risk. Guess what? She was kidnapped again, tortured, gang-raped and re-trafficked. She's in the news because she had the gumption to sue the UK Government who have just paid her damages. It's worth remembering the human plight behind so many of these cases. And to take the long view. Remember the panic about Poles flooding the UK a few years back? Now we're complaining we can't find any more plumbers because they've gone home again! The UK is a mongrel nation and has been ever since the Normans invaded. And all the better for it...
The rules about registering even if staying in a hotel go way back beyond 2001 and I've always thought they were just unrepealed bits of fascist law - though given the Red Brigade, the "years of Lead" and the neo-fascist bombing of Bologna station I can see how they may be old anti-terrorist laws.
Quote"Almost all the heat from a radiant source is converted to warmth that humans can perceive only when it strikes a solid object" I.e. my legs sited as close as possible to it!