Pat Eggleton
Articles by Pat Eggleton
Tue, 07/06/2010 - 04:43
Italian octogenarians worried by yesterday’s driving ban story may soon be eating more tomatoes if claims for the new, square “super tomato” turn out…
Tue, 07/06/2010 - 04:38
Words by Pat Eggleton
You will all know that an Italian wouldn’t dream of beginning a meal without wishing everyone else at the table “Buon appetito”…
Tue, 07/06/2010 - 04:20
In this photo: George Clooney in the film "Up in the air"George Clooney is to testify as a civil plaintiff in a fraud and forgery trial in Italy, repo…
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 05:27
One hundred dozen bottles of Australian wine from Coonawarra will soon be on their way to Italy in readiness for the October celebrations of the canon…
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 05:05
In a bid to reduce road accidents, the Italian Parliament is considering banning drivers over the age of 80, the Telegraph reports. The idea is based…
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 03:13
Words by Pat EggletonLast Friday July 2nd marked the seventieth anniversary of the Arandora Star tragedy and in Cardiff, Wales, UK a memorial to the 5…
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 06:15
Words by Pat EggletonThe sound is still faint but it is definitely there and I have heard it, at dusk, for the past week. Yes, the cigali or cicadas a…
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 05:38
In Verona, home, of course, of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet, a voluntary group of men and women answer over 5,000 letters a year addressed to…
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 05:00
Prosecutors in Rome have sent formal requests for judicial assistance to the US, France, Belgium and Germany with regard to the investigation into the…
Fri, 07/02/2010 - 04:43
The Welsh are nothing if not audacious and one has to admire the nerve of the Village Bakery [Nutrition] in Wrexham, North Wales, whose latest venture…
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 06:01
Anyone who has had to leave their bag in a locker, go through two security doors and pass the armed security guard standing at the entrance may be sur…
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 05:44
If you are in Arezzo [Tuscany] here is an exhibition to cheer you up: if you pop into the upmarket menswear shop, “Sugar” you can see a display of pop…
Thu, 07/01/2010 - 04:03
Words by Pat EggletonHave you ever been served, in Italy, a plate of those delightful, small appetisers called “stuzzichini”? Have you then wished tha…
Wed, 06/30/2010 - 10:58
Words by Pat EggletonAlex Roe is an Englishman who is trying to understand Italy. He came on the first leg of a world trip but then he met Cristina a…
Wed, 06/30/2010 - 09:33
Massimo Tartaglia, the man who attacked Premier Silvio Berlusconi with a spiked metal model of Milan Cathedral in December, has been acquitted by a ju…
Wed, 06/30/2010 - 09:15
Besides visiting the National Etruscan Museum and the painted tombs of the Monterozzi Necropolis, visitors to Tarquinia [Lazio] can now participate in…
Wed, 06/30/2010 - 07:05
Words by Pat EggletonTo ask if something is sold in a shop, we saysi vende plus objectif we are asking about one thing. - "si vende il pane? Do you se…
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 04:54
Words by Pat EggletonIn summer you may want to see a little greenery as well as taking time out from indoor museums. Here are five gardens in five dif…
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 04:49
Some patients who became blind in one eye as a result of chemical burns have had their sight totally or partially restored after undergoing adult stem…
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 04:30
The United States Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider an appeal by the Vatican for immunity in a paedophilia case. The case, brought in 2002,…