Lucio Dalla – Attenti al lupo

Lucio Dalla is a well known singer in Italy.  He's done some good stuff too.One of his tracks I've always rather liked is this one - Attenti al Lupo - Beware the Wolf.Well worth listening to, and might help you with your Italian too.It's a jaunty little number and I love the … [Read more...]

Vasco Rossi – Come Stai

I like this Rossi track from his 'Buoni O Cattivi' album :It's quite a rocky little number, and pretty powerful too. To be expected really, after all, Vasco is the king of stadium rock in Italy. The studio version is slightly better, I reckon. Not bad for developing your comprehension of … [Read more...]

More on the super sausage search

My sausage seeking endeavours starting to bear fruit. After having estabilshed that importing bangers from Spain would cost a arm and a leg (c. £3000=00!! eek!), as I had suspected, I headed off down an alternative route.Today, I popped into a local butchers here in Milan which is a whole five … [Read more...]

Progress on the sausage search front

In my attempts to track down British banger for Alessandro at the 442 pub, I appear to have made some slight progress. The subject sausages have been tracked down.The foot and mouth thing in the UK means that sourcing sausages from England's green and currently disease ridden lands is looking … [Read more...]

Help please

I've played around with a few settings, and moved things around on the right hand side bar, including reducing the number of Google ads. I've done this, and some other stuff, because Jan, one of my faithful readers, told me that this blog was taking ages to appear in her browser. On my computer … [Read more...]